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Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-87
Severity: important
File: crontab
I run several tasks that need to execute every 2 or 3 minutes. I noticed
that they have been running multiple times (I've seen anywhere from 2 to 4).
I can always reproduce the issue by creating a script:
*/2 * * * * root /root/crontabdebug.sh
With the contents being:
#/bin/bash
echo "$0 $1 `date` PID=$$" >> /tmp/crontab.debug.log
These are examples of the log entries that show the problem:
/root/crontabdebug.sh Thu Oct 13 14:50:00 CDT 2005 PID=19644
/root/crontabdebug.sh Thu Oct 13 14:51:58 CDT 2005 PID=19735
/root/crontabdebug.sh Thu Oct 13 14:51:59 CDT 2005 PID=19778
/root/crontabdebug.sh Thu Oct 13 14:52:01 CDT 2005 PID=19820
/root/crontabdebug.sh Thu Oct 13 14:54:01 CDT 2005 PID=19914
/root/crontabdebug.sh Thu Oct 13 22:38:00 CDT 2005 PID=7672
/root/crontabdebug.sh Thu Oct 13 22:38:01 CDT 2005 PID=7717
/root/crontabdebug.sh Fri Oct 14 00:09:59 CDT 2005 PID=11664
/root/crontabdebug.sh Fri Oct 14 00:09:59 CDT 2005 PID=11685
/root/crontabdebug.sh Fri Oct 14 00:22:01 CDT 2005 PID=12246
/root/crontabdebug.sh Fri Oct 14 00:22:59 CDT 2005 PID=12308
I did look at bug #322921 and think that it doesn't apply
in this case. My ntpdate entry runs every 9 minutes, which
doesn't always coincide with the multiple executions.
Thanks,
Alberto
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-686-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages cron depends on:
ii adduser 3.64 Add and remove users and groups
ii debianutils 2.14.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libpam0g 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
-- no debconf information
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As it stands it seems to properly work with current versions of
cron. Tested on 3.0pl1-100 and 3.0pl1-86.
Thanks,
Alberto
On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 14:08 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> #333852 - cront: job runs multiple times when steps are using in minutes field
> http://bugs.debian.org./333852
>
> Could you test if this problem exists with recent versions of cron?
>
>
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