David Horky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have problems with some cron jobs on Mandrake 7.2. Sometimes - once, twice a
> week, but not regularly, some of the cron jobs are run more then once. it is
> especially annoying during log-rotating. here is the example of cron log which
> demonstrates is well - cron.daily jobs are excuted twice.
>
>
> Jul 2 04:01:59 thorn CROND[23983]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.daily)
> Jul 2 04:02:00 thorn CROND[24066]: (root) CMD ( /usr/share/msec/promisc_check
> Jul 2 04:02:00 thorn CROND[24069]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.daily)
> Jul 2 04:03:00 thorn CROND[24237]: (root) CMD ( /usr/share/msec/promisc_check
>
> there is not ntp server on the box, just sync time 4 times a day, there is just
How do you sync the time exactly? If it does a 'hard' time-set then you can
see really strange things when the time goes backwards.... And I mean *REALLY
STRANGE* ;-)
Including what you see. If the time sink :-) command happened at 4:01:59.5, and it
turned
the clock back to 4:01:58 for example, then you just violated one of the assumptions
of all the time-based things - that time always goes forward...
> Has anyone seen a similar problem?
Yeah, when I change the time back manually I've seen strange things. Also I've noticed
weird things when I jump the time forward by a bunch (like a day or so), but usually
its not damaging ;-)
> Any clue what could be a reason of such a behavior?
see above guess about time being reversed.
rc
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