From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 2 15:45:54 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A8D71065672 for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2008 15:45:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bounces@nabble.com) Received: from kuber.nabble.com (kuber.nabble.com [216.139.236.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E997F8FC18 for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2008 15:45:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bounces@nabble.com) Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by kuber.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KaY4m-0004oa-PB for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:45:52 -0700 Message-ID: <19272656.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 08:45:52 -0700 (PDT) From: ElihuJ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Nabble-From: chinocubus@yahoo.com Subject: Cron Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:45:54 -0000 Hi all. I have a question about cron jobs that seem to be running to long or with multiple copies of itself. For example, I have a backup script that I run that seems to make multiple copies of itself. If I view the running processes I see numerous instances of the same cron job. Is there something I can do to limit this from happening? When it does, it drains my CPU and some of my other processes are non responsive. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Cron-Question-tp19272656p19272656.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com.