From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 30 09:04:38 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@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 0F3E2D7B for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 09:04:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qa0-x22b.google.com (mail-qa0-x22b.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c00::22b]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C902C2F20 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 09:04:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qa0-f43.google.com with SMTP id k15so6136064qaq.16 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 02:04:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:reply-to:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=zLSrAl/eL6UIeoWg0QtnmG6u93EIcpnhRXuC9NlgweU=; b=ngQJ2DAh6oHToJ3MWcO4HWGFZriQsKYdGfyEorZSLyFyiuowPdU4QLcsqFO00Ss06X bEFKNrXL+RBSv/nqGBBTmA76gRHfpAPnmjIW/+j1nsaeUovdILAYHjzn17pC7bipUfPZ eNJYILa9FSasq8ds8t2TYoyZ/RtyCJvh8RoAyiLlM3+OGKTCjaWjchYrFitmuXLThyrz TXbET0xN2ix8cemphGfMDe/BNcL4tCo21GY9ft8jaMPa30B581Y07ySLAsXpprhy2h2r V6U1dFWpVfP1iKlH9D8ZXfMR9JYVcSZAljblhzV6XUxePck9Le/bbXAv6xm/i3V3BhtE TI/A== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.224.34.73 with SMTP id k9mr59979557qad.11.1404119076895; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 02:04:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.96.131.77 with HTTP; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 02:04:36 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: spil.oss@gmail.com Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:04:36 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Hourly cron jobs running to early From: Spil Oss To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 09:04:38 -0000 Hi, A system I manage that was recently upgraded from 9 to 10.0 and to a later version of VMWare vSphere (5.5U1) is no longer running hourly jobs at the top of the hour but just before. This is especially annoying for newsyslog that doesn't then cycle logfiles that are set to daily rotation. grep -E " (00|23):" /var/log/cron.log Jun 25 23:59:34 gw /usr/sbin/cron[94620]: (root) CMD (newsyslog) Jun 26 00:59:51 gw /usr/sbin/cron[95380]: (root) CMD (newsyslog) Jun 26 23:59:12 gw /usr/sbin/cron[21259]: (root) CMD (newsyslog) Jun 27 00:59:34 gw /usr/sbin/cron[22036]: (root) CMD (newsyslog) Jun 27 23:59:25 gw /usr/sbin/cron[49211]: (root) CMD (newsyslog) Jun 28 00:59:34 gw /usr/sbin/cron[49968]: (root) CMD (newsyslog) Jun 28 23:58:55 gw /usr/sbin/cron[83459]: (root) CMD (newsyslog) Jun 29 00:59:51 gw /usr/sbin/cron[84221]: (root) CMD (newsyslog) Jun 29 23:59:51 gw /usr/sbin/cron[6571]: (root) CMD (newsyslog) Jun 30 00:59:51 gw /usr/sbin/cron[7327]: (root) CMD (newsyslog) ntpd is configured on the server and working fine # ntpdate -q ntp1.nl.uu.net server 193.79.237.14, stratum 1, offset -0.000250, delay 0.02942 30 Jun 10:54:50 ntpdate[19771]: adjust time server 193.79.237.14 offset -0.000250 sec Looking at all hourly newsyslog jobs for a day 14:59:51 15:59:47 16:58:42 17:59:51 18:59:55 19:59:55 20:59:51 21:59:12 22:59:34 23:59:51 23:59:51 23:59:51 00:59:51 01:58:42 02:59:29 03:59:47 04:59:51 05:59:47 06:59:38 07:59:51 08:59:42 09:58:42 10:58:42 I don't really see a pattern in this