Hi,

I have the following crontab file on my SLES10 SP2 systems:

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/lib/news/bin
MAILTO=root
#
# check scripts in cron.hourly, cron.daily, cron.weekly, and cron.monthly
#
-*/15 * * * *   root  test -x /usr/lib/cron/run-crons &&
/usr/lib/cron/run-crons >/dev/null 2>&1
59 *  * * *     root  rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly
10 0  * * *     root  rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily
29 4  * * 6     root  rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.weekly
44 4  1 * *     root  rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.monthly

This Sunday, when we move the time back one hour, the scripts in our daily
group ran twice.  This is caused by the run-crons script that runs every 15
minutes.  In our case, the daily script ran at 12:10AM  on 11/1, then again
at 11:10PM on 11/1, and finally at 12:10AM on 11/2.

Searching online, I see various bugs in run-crons causing this type of
behavior on other distributions.

Did anyone else see this behavior over the weekend?

Thanks,
Aria

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