[CentOS] crond sometimes launches a child process?

[John R. Dennison]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 10:34:40AM +0200, Rafał Radecki wrote:
> Hi All.
> 
> I monitor number of crond processes on my machines. On one of them I have 2
> crond processes for a short period of time (few minutes) everyday. It is at
> the same time when one jobs starts to run - a sphinx indexer.
> 
> What are the possible causes of crond running a child crond process?

cron fork()s child processes to invoke the actual jobs under; this is
normal behavior.





							John
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