Last night was our change from EDT to EST. So we went through the
1am-2am hour twice. My crontab has the following:
# for vixie cron
# $Header:
# /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-process/vixie-cron/files/crontab-3.0.1-r4,v
# 1.3 2011/09/20 15:13:51 idl0r Exp $
# Global variables
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/
# check scripts in cron.hourly, cron.daily, cron.weekly and cron.monthly
59 * * * * root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly
9 3 * * * root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily
19 4 * * 6 root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.weekly
29 5 1 * * root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.monthly
*/10 * * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons
So the cron.daily file should be removed at 3:09am -- it should only run
once as the 2am-forward time only occurred once.
However, this morning I have two sets of email from my daily jobs
running. At this time:
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 02:20:05 -0500 (EST)
and this time:
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 03:10:04 -0500 (EST)
Why would it have run twice?
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-M
Rident stolidi verba Latina.
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