OK, so maybe I am completely misguided about how cron is supposed to work, but I kind of thought it was supposed to launch one instance of a task at the specified time. On my bottom-most entry I put a trace within the /ub/1/.profile file that it is supposed to run and find over 100 instances per second of a launch for each of the first 8 seconds of the matching time. Any thoughts of best practices to get only one launch per cron entry?
Thanks, Bill Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# crontab -l -u otto # @(#) root 90.1 00/05/01 # # The Minute after the Hour is first # The Hour to run on is second # The third entry is the day of the month (1-31) # The fourth entry is the month of the year (1-12) # The Day of the week to run is fifth (0=sunday) # The sixth entry is the program to run # 00 20 * * * /ub/1/.profile 1>/ub/1/otto1.err 2>/ub/1/otto2.err # 10 21 * * * /usr/bin/unibasic -f /ub/1/portallevict 11 21 * * * /usr/bin/unibasic -f /ub/1/portallevict 12 21 * * * /usr/bin/unibasic -f /ub/1/portallevict 13 21 * * * /usr/bin/unibasic -f /ub/1/portallevict 14 21 * * * /usr/bin/unibasic -f /ub/1/portallevict # 30 21 * * * /ub/1/.profile 1>/ub/1/otto1.err 2>/ub/1/otto2.err # 00 04 * * 1-5 /ub/1/.profile 1>/ub/1/otto1.err 2>/ub/1/otto2.err # _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list rhelv5-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
