send an exact copy of your cron job.
I once had an extra * in the cron job time list, and it tried to run
every script in my home directory.
On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
>
> Has anyone noticed duplicate cron jobs being run? It doesn't happen all
> the time, so it may not have been noticed by me until I installed mrtg
> (which runs a root cron job every 5 minutes). At first, I thought it was a
> bug with mrtg, since the error email complained that the mrtg lockfile
> already existed, but everything seemed to be working anyway. I then added
> MAILTO="devnull" (where devnull is a bit-bucket alias). Oddly, I still
> seem to get messages from root, despite the fact that the MAILTO line says
> not to send to root! It's almost like crond is running a second instance
> at the same time, but screwing up some of the info (like the MAILTO
> line). I am running mandrake 6.1.
>
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