Cron jobs running twice

Mark C. Allman mcallman at allmanpc.com
Fri Jul 31 12:30:12 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 08:18 -0400, Casartello, Thomas wrote:
> I have a weird issue on one of my Fedora 11 machines. All my cron jobs
> keep running twice. (for example the stuff in cron.hourly will run
> twice every hour.) Just upgraded this machine from Fedora 10
> yesterday. There’s only one crond process running so I’m not sure why
> it’s doing it. Here’s the log:
> 
>  
> 
> Jul 31 07:01:01 ataxia CROND[18485]: (root) CMD
> (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
> 
> Jul 31 07:01:01 ataxia CROND[18486]: (root) CMD
> (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
> 
> Jul 31 07:01:01 ataxia run-parts(/etc/cron.hourly)[18485]: starting
> 0anacron
> 
> Jul 31 07:01:01 ataxia run-parts(/etc/cron.hourly)[18486]: starting
> 0anacron
> 
> Jul 31 07:01:01 ataxia run-parts(/etc/cron.hourly)[18504]: finished
> 0anacron
> 
> Jul 31 07:01:01 ataxia run-parts(/etc/cron.hourly)[18505]: finished
> 0anacron
> 
> Jul 31 07:01:01 ataxia run-parts(/etc/cron.hourly)[18486]: starting
> process-quarantine.pl
> 
> Jul 31 07:01:01 ataxia run-parts(/etc/cron.hourly)[18485]: starting
> process-quarantine.pl
> 
> Jul 31 07:01:01 ataxia run-parts(/etc/cron.hourly)[18516]: finished
> process-quarantine.pl
> 
> Jul 31 07:04:36 ataxia run-parts(/etc/cron.hourly)[20474]: finished
> process-quarantine.pl
> 
>  
> 
> Thomas E. Casartello, Jr.
> 
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I bet that cron and anacron are both running your cron jobs.  I ran into
this when I upgraded one of my systems to F11.  If I remember correctly
I commented out the "run cron jobs" stuff in the anacron config.

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