Bill Watson wrote:
OK I tried first linking .profile to ottorun and changed crontab to call ottorun and no change. Then to be double sure, I removed the link, copied the .profile information to ottorun, verified the 700 permissions and still no change. Cron launches about 1091 instances during the first 8 seconds of the cron match time. This is no matter if I choose once per day or once per minute ( * * * * * /ub/1/ottorun ) in the crontab entry. Also in the above command, otto1.err and otto2.err are empty. OBTW, this is RHEL 5.2 with all offered patches if it matters. And afterwards I also SWAG'ed and added #!/bin/sh as the first line with no change in symptoms. /var/log/cron only has the following: Nov 25 08:13:01 helmethouse crond[29776]: (otto) CMD (/ub/1/ottorun 1>/ub/1/otto1.err 2>/ub/1/otto2.err) ** and not 1000+ instances - just one.
This seems to indicate you're effectively running a fork bomb -- a process that calls itself. Does /ub/1/ottorun call itself? Does /ub/1/.profile call /ub/1/ottorun or itself?
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