cron executes entries twice
Andrew Boothman
andrew at cream.org
Wed Jul 2 20:03:09 PDT 2003
On Thursday 03 July 2003 1:23 am, John wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> For quite some time now my system has been executing all entries in the
> crontab twice, instead of the expected once. This happens most obviously
> for the periodic scripts, but also on some scripts that I added for
> nightly, weekly, or runs at reboot. This started not long after a
> buildworld upgrade from one 4.x to another 4.x. Which upgrade, I don't
> recall unfortunately. The executions of the scripts appear to occur within
> minutes of each other, if not seconds.
Hmmm - that is strange.
My only thought off-hand would be that someone has managed to install
/etc/crontab as a personal crontab?
Try 'crontab -l' as root and any other possible users to see if they have a
crontab that is similar to the /etc/crontab
Just a thought......
Andrew
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