misc/58557: Summer/Winter-time change causes daily cron to be run twice

Linus Sjoberg lsjoberg at aland.net
Sun Oct 26 02:40:18 PST 2003


>Number:         58557
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       Summer/Winter-time change causes daily cron to be run twice
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Oct 26 02:40:15 PST 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Linus Sjoberg <lsjoberg at aland.net>
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.9-RC i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD clarke.alcom.aland.fi 4.9-RC FreeBSD 4.9-RC #16: Sat Oct 4 14:02:29 EEST 2003 root at clarke.alcom.aland.fi:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CLARKE i386


	
>Description:

When the timezone automagically changes from EEST to EET the periodical 
daily scripts get run twice. This results in receiving 2 copies of all 
email reports, and all other utility scripts getting run twice.

>How-To-Repeat:

Configure a machine to be in EEST with the date set to the last saturday
in October and have Finnish summertime rules. At Sunday 04:00 the clock
will change to 03:00 and all daily scripts will be rerun. (This since
they are run at 03:01 from /etc/crontab)

>Fix:

	


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