Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 22:27:07 -0500 From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> To: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org>, John <papalia@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cron executes entries twice Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20030702222707.013ceac8@sage-one.net> In-Reply-To: <200307030403.19547.andrew@cream.org> References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030702201023.00afff90@mail.udel.edu> <5.2.0.9.0.20030702201023.00afff90@mail.udel.edu>
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At 04:03 AM 7.3.2003 +0100, Andrew Boothman wrote: >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 > Or do this: # ls -l /var/cron/tabs .... and that will show the crontabs running..... open them to see the contents. That will be faster if you have a lot of users. Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net jackstone@sage-one.net
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