Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 18:01:10 +0100 From: <cdr.nil@gmail.com> To: "'Konstantin Belousov'" <kostikbel@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Hourly cron jobs running to early Message-ID: <001201cf9484$e4e43a30$aeacae90$@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140630131857.GL93733@kib.kiev.ua> References: <CAEJyAvNteTZA5xiUzwNr=W241LZzWMB%2BQppZa829eDDSsCT2ng@mail.gmail.com> <000f01cf9463$b1e0b300$15a21900$@gmail.com> <20140630131857.GL93733@kib.kiev.ua>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > stable@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Konstantin Belousov > Sent: 30 June 2014 14:19 > To: cdr.nil@gmail.com > Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Hourly cron jobs running to early > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 02:03:31PM +0100, cdr.nil@gmail.com wrote: > > Folks, > > > > I, too, am seeing a problem of cron running jobs a few seconds too early. > > This is on a Thinkpad T42 running: > > > > FreeBSD cobalt 10.0-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p6 #3 r267829M: Wed Jun > > 25 07:41:33 BST 2014 root@cobalt:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > > > BIOS clock is running UTC and is under ntpd control. > > > > I noticed this on a logging cron job that is supposed to run on the hour. > > These are the last few timings: > > > > 03:59:47 > > 04:59:12 > > 05:59:47 > > 06:59:47 > > 07:59:47 > > 08:59:47 > > 09:59:47 > > 10:59:47 > > 11:59:47 > > 12:59:47 > > > The head r261146, merged to stable/10 as r261231, seems to be > relevant. Konstantin, Thanks for the pointer. I've applied the patch and cron seems to be behaving itself. -mark
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