Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 04:41:45 -0400 From: Dan Welch <welchdw@earthlink.net> To: John <papalia@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cron executes entries twice Message-ID: <20030703084145.GB9794@gandalf.welch.net> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030702201023.00afff90@mail.udel.edu> References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030702201023.00afff90@mail.udel.edu>
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Another item to check: Faulty time service might produce such duplication. The first cron job would run on the old time; the time updates; it then runs the job again. There would not be a 3rd run because the clock is now correct. On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 08:23:30PM -0400, John wrote: > For quite some time now my system has been executing all entries in the > crontab twice, instead of the expected once. This happens most obviously > for the periodic scripts, but also on some scripts that I added for > nightly, weekly, or runs at reboot. This started not long after a > buildworld upgrade from one 4.x to another 4.x. Which upgrade, I don't > recall unfortunately. The executions of the scripts appear to occur within > minutes of each other, if not seconds. > > I checked /var/cron/tabs/root, and all entries are in there only once. > > Cron is also only running as a single process. > > The system is running 4.8-RC. > > Any thoughts of where to look and what to look for?
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