[CentOS] cron.hourly runs twice

Timothy Murphy

gayleard at eircom.net
Tue Mar 16 14:15:16 UTC 2010


For some reason I cannot fathom,
cron.hourly runs twice each hour
on one of my two CentOS-5.4 systems,
as reported in /var/log/cron:
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Mar 16 14:01:01 helen crond[27833]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
Mar 16 14:01:01 helen crond[27834]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
-------------------------
On the other it just runs once, as expected.
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Mar 16 13:01:01 althea crond[23373]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
Mar 16 14:01:01 althea crond[23553]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
Mar 16 15:01:01 althea crond[23695]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
-------------------------

This doesn't have any bad effect,
but it does run the scripts in /etc/cron.hourly twice.

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

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Timothy Murphy  
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