On 03/16/2010 10:11 AM, Jeff wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Timothy Murphy<gayleard at eircom.net> wrote: >> 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: >> ------------------------- >> 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. >> ------------------------- >> 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. > > hourly, daily, weekly and monthly jobs are configured in /etc/crontab. > What's your /etc/crontab look like? Are you seeing the same behavior > for daily/weekly jobs? Have you simply tried restarting the cron > service? Also, make sure that cron.hourly is _not_ run from /etc/anacrontab or from any of the crontabs in /var/spool/cron. -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it.