Cron jobs running twice

Casartello, Thomas tcasartello at wsc.ma.edu
Fri Jul 31 12:30:41 UTC 2009


Just figured out why….after the upgrade I have both a /etc/crontab and a /etc/anacrontab….it’s parsing both.

 

Thomas E. Casartello, Jr.

Staff Assistant - Wireless/Linux Administrator

Information Technology

Wilson 105A

Westfield State College

 

Red Hat Certified Technician (RHCT)

 

From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Casartello, Thomas
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 8:28 AM
To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora.
Subject: RE: Cron jobs running twice

 

It’s normal. 00 02 * * * /var/lib/mysql/highspam

It’s even running my stuff in cron.daily and cron.hourly twice.

 

Thomas E. Casartello, Jr.

Staff Assistant - Wireless/Linux Administrator

Information Technology

Wilson 105A

Westfield State College

 

Red Hat Certified Technician (RHCT)

 

From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Waleed Harbi
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 8:26 AM
To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora.
Subject: Re: Cron jobs running twice

 

what are the results for crontab -l ?

Best Regards,
Waleed Harbi
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.



On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Casartello, Thomas <tcasartello at wsc.ma.edu> 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.

Staff Assistant - Wireless/Linux Administrator

Information Technology

Wilson 105A

Westfield State College

(413) 572-8245

 

Red Hat Certified Technician (RHCT)

 


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