Cron runs twice a day?

[Ian Dobson]

 My crontab is as follows
01 * * * * /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
02 1 * * * /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.daily
20 1 * * 0 /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
40 1 1 * * /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.monthly

tasks in the cron.daily run at 1:02 and 4:00am
tasks in cron.weekly run at 1:20 and 4:00am
what is running the tasks a second time?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve" <steve at focb.co.nz>
To: <redhat-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 8:13 PM
Subject: Re: Cron runs twice a day?


>
> I think you may need to describe what you are doing a little more.
>
> Cron as a process runs at bootup time and stays running while your PC is
> powered up (unless of course it crashes :-) )
>
> It then wakes up every minute and checks the crontab (/etc/crontab) and
> the files in /var/spool/cron (system dependant) to see if it should do
> anything.
>
> As such your question doesnt really make any sense as cron is constantly
> running..
>
> -- 
> Steve.
>
> On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Ian Dobson wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure if it is cron, but it seems to run twice a day, once at the
> > propper time and once about 3 hours later, I've noticed it for
cron.daily
> > and cron.weekly.
> > any ideas where to look?
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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