From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 30 03:34:09 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E8B7E2C1; Wed, 30 Apr 2014 03:34:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay2.tomsk.ru (mail.sibptus.tomsk.ru [212.73.124.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 190CA1DF6; Wed, 30 Apr 2014 03:34:08 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by clamd daemon 0.98.1 for FreeBSD at relay2.tomsk.ru Received: from admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru (account sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru [212.73.125.240] verified) by relay2.tomsk.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 35488820; Wed, 30 Apr 2014 10:34:05 +0700 Received: from admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru (sudakov@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id s3U3Y28b052614; Wed, 30 Apr 2014 10:34:05 +0700 (NOVT) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) Received: (from sudakov@localhost) by admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id s3U3Y2er052613; Wed, 30 Apr 2014 10:34:02 +0700 (NOVT) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) X-Authentication-Warning: admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru: sudakov set sender to vas@mpeks.tomsk.su using -f Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 10:34:02 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Multiple "/usr/sbin/freebsd-update cron" processes Message-ID: <20140430033402.GA51407@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Organization: AO "Svyaztransneft", SibPTUS X-PGP-Key: http://www.dreamwidth.org/pubkey?user=victor_sudakov X-PGP-Fingerprint: 10E3 1171 1273 E007 C2E9 3532 0DA4 F259 9B5E C634 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: Colin Percival X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 03:34:10 -0000 Colleagues, I wonder why the "/usr/sbin/freebsd-update cron" process sometimes runs in several copies (possibly corrupting the database). It's started from cron at 6am every day, why should it multiply like that? It's strange that the script itself does not have any safeguards against this. 645 ?? Ss 0:05,99 /usr/sbin/cron -s 59207 ?? I 0:00,00 cron: running job (cron) 59208 ?? Is 0:00,09 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/freebsd-update cron 59455 ?? I 0:00,00 sleep 3493 59956 ?? I 0:00,00 cron: running job (cron) 59957 ?? Is 0:00,09 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/freebsd-update cron 60204 ?? I 0:00,00 sleep 2723 61631 ?? I 0:00,00 cron: running job (cron) 61632 ?? Is 0:00,09 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/freebsd-update cron 61879 ?? I 0:00,00 sleep 3278 62344 ?? I 0:00,00 cron: running job (cron) 62346 ?? Is 0:00,09 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/freebsd-update cron 62594 ?? I 0:00,00 sleep 3190 62595 ?? I 0:00,00 cron: running job (cron) 62596 ?? Is 0:00,09 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/freebsd-update cron 62843 ?? I 0:00,00 sleep 2812 -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru