cron executes entries twice

[Jack L. Stone]

At 04:03 AM 7.3.2003 +0100, Andrew Boothman wrote:
>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
>

Or do this:
# ls -l /var/cron/tabs

.... and that will show the crontabs running..... open them to see the
contents. That will be faster if you have a lot of users.

Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
Administrator

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