anti-dog-piling and ntpd leap files

[Dirk-Willem van Gulik]

Just wondering - how is the new ntpd leapfile fetching supposed to work. I spot a dead normal entry:

	May 22 03:01:00 lowcloud-storage /usr/sbin/cron[6258]: (root) CMD (periodic daily)

in /var/log/cron - and see the periodic scripts getting ran one by one.

Yet regularly - I see 3 of them still sitting pretty — even though their sleeps are all below < 24hours:

	ps ...
	root       10324    0.0  0.0  13144   2788  -  I    03:57        0:00.00 /bin/sh /etc/periodic/daily/480.leapfile-ntpd
	root       10327    0.0  0.0   6244   1996  -  I    03:57        0:00.00 sleep 79926
	root       16376    0.0  0.0  13144   1960  -  IJ   05:10        0:00.00 /bin/sh /etc/periodic/daily/480.leapfile-ntpd
	root       16379    0.0  0.0   6244   1496  -  IJ   05:10        0:00.00 sleep 64660
	root       17537    0.0  0.0  13144   1960  -  IJ   05:28        0:00.00 /bin/sh /etc/periodic/daily/480.leapfile-ntpd
	root       17540    0.0  0.0   6244   1496  -  IJ   05:28        0:00.00 sleep 77582

That is not supposed to happen ? Correct ?

Dw.