-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Michael Schumacher Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 9:00 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] cron.hourly runs twice
Timothy,
On Wednesday, March 17, 2010 you wrote:
For some reason I cannot fathom, cron.hourly runs twice each hour on one of my two CentOS-5.4 systems,
Need to get a look into the runtime environment:
Add this to the cron.hourly
#!/bin/sh pstree -up >> /tmp/foo.log
Next hour look at the parents (and their pids).
Here comes a very weird idea. I don't know the internals of the cron-daemon good enough to know if this can actually happen. If you have a NTP-job every hour started by cron that corrects the internal time and if your internal clock runs too fast, the system time may be reset every hour so that the cron-job will start twice. As I said, I don't know if cron-daemon has a mechanism that would avoid that problem.
best regards
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