Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 04:03:19 +0100 From: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> To: John <papalia@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cron executes entries twice Message-ID: <200307030403.19547.andrew@cream.org> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030702201023.00afff90@mail.udel.edu> References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030702201023.00afff90@mail.udel.edu>
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On Thursday 03 July 2003 1:23 am, John wrote: > Hi All, > > For quite some time now my system has been executing all entries in the > crontab twice, instead of the expected once. This happens most obviously > for the periodic scripts, but also on some scripts that I added for > nightly, weekly, or runs at reboot. This started not long after a > buildworld upgrade from one 4.x to another 4.x. Which upgrade, I don't > recall unfortunately. The executions of the scripts appear to occur within > minutes of each other, if not seconds. Hmmm - that is strange. My only thought off-hand would be that someone has managed to install /etc/crontab as a personal crontab? Try 'crontab -l' as root and any other possible users to see if they have a crontab that is similar to the /etc/crontab Just a thought...... Andrew
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