On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 04:33:46PM +1100, John Clarke wrote:
> Anyone seen this? Sometimes cron (vixie-cron-3.0.1-61 RH 7.0) runs
> scheduled jobs twice, and sometimes even three times. This happens
> only two or three times a day, and only on one of the three machines I
> have running the same version of vixie-cron.
Thanks to Jonas Larsson, I now know why this was happening. It's a
race condition in vixie-cron-3.0.1-61, caused by an earlier fix to the
scheduling logic. See:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29868
RH have apparently released an updated package, vixie-cron-3.0.1-63,
but it's a rawhide package rather than one of the normal RH7.0 updates.
Jonas has installed the updated package and has seen no problems so
far.
Cheers,
John
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