Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 12:53:50 +0200 From: "Ronald Klop" <ronald-lists@klop.ws> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cron jobs running early in virtual machine Message-ID: <op.xhadv0oakndu52@82-171-231-144.ip.telfort.nl> In-Reply-To: <CAEJyAvNm17i%2Bwt8d6yvs9BcEdBZyyEbVuaBBjydE7WyuC0Q2uA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAEJyAvNm17i%2Bwt8d6yvs9BcEdBZyyEbVuaBBjydE7WyuC0Q2uA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 11:31:02 +0200, Spil Oss <spil.oss@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a FreeBSD 10 running in VMWare ESXi 5.5. ntp is properly > configured and the time on the server is fine. > > What I've found is that cron jobs start early. I call newsyslog -v in > jails from the system crontab > in /etc/crontab > 0 0 * * * root jx all newsyslog -v > > jx is a simple wrapper to call that program in a named jail or 'all' > jails from jls > results in > Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 23:59:08 +0200 > Subject: Cron <root@gw> jx all newsyslog -v > X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh> > X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin> > X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root> > X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root> > X-Cron-Env: <USER=root> > > Jail: build > Processing /etc/newsyslog.conf > /var/log/daily.log <7>: --> will trim at Wed Jun 11 00:00:00 2014 > > So this will never cycle daily.log > > What can cause cron to start all jobs early? I tested this with a > simple `date' in cron as well and that's early too > > Kind regards, > > Spil http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=261231 This was committed to stable/10 after 10.0-RELEASE. Maybe it has something to do with it. NB: I'm am not the author of the patch so I might be totally wrong. Ronald.
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