Why is /etc/cron.daily happening twice
Robert Locke
lists at ralii.com
Sat Nov 24 14:39:36 UTC 2007
On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 10:24 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> If I do a 'ps -ef' on my system I see the following:-
>
> root 17343 1 0 04:02 ? 00:00:00 crond
> root 17344 17343 0 04:02 ? 00:00:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.daily
> root 18023 17344 0 05:05 ? 00:00:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.daily
>
>
> Why does '/bin/bash /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.daily' appear to be
> spawning a copy of itself just over an hour after it started? I have
> looked at the /usr/bin/run-parts script and I really can't see a
> reason why it should do this unless one of the scripts in /etc/cron.daily
> is doing something wierd and I have only added a very simple backup
> script there.
>
> Oh, this is on Fedora 7 by the way.
>
>
> ... and yes, it is a problem, the rsync backups were tripping over
> themselves.
>
Hi Chris,
Look at anacron. Specifically, /etc/anacrontab.
--Rob
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