Mad random cron miss-fire

[Karl Larsen]

Yang Xiao wrote:
> Hi all,
> On a heavily loaded FC3 with vixie-cron-4.1-36.FC3 installed, we have 
> approx. 60 jobs that are scheduled to run from 4 different user's 
> crontabs at 11:15 everyday, and we would get random miss-fires from 
> jobs, and no error in the cron.log whatsoever, can anybody give any 
> pointers as to where to look? I'm sure I'd get at least something in 
> the cron log if it's a dependency or permission or pam issue, but 
> that's what's really puzzling, I don't get anything in the cron logs 
> for the skipped jobs.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> - Yang
    This is a SWAG, but what you say is that cron has no problems. So 
have a look at what cron is turning on and see what problem is there.


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