Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 07:38:58 -0400 From: John <papalia@comcast.net> To: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cron executes entries twice Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.0.20030703073556.02a8b0e0@mail.comcast.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, 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 Your suggestion was dead on - I'm not sure why I kept overlooking this. For some reason the entire contents of /etc/crontab were duplicated in root's crontab. I got rid of it last night, and lo - only one run of the scripts. Thanks very much for the help! -John
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