Re: [CentOS] cron.hourly runs twice

Michael Schumacher wrote:

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I just wonder if anyone has come across this curiosity? Or can suggest any possible cause.

Did you edit one of the jobs? Some Editors (joe) create a file with an "~" at the end as a backup. If you edit one of your cronjob-scripts in /etc/cron.hourly/ , you may create a second file that will be run by cron too. This happened here some time ago and it took some time to figure out the reason.

Thanks for the suggestion. I haven't edited any of the scripts in /etc/cron.hourly . Also, I checked and found that cron.hourly starts twice before any of the scripts starts. Each of the scripts then runs twice.