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paulez

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Registered: 2007-07-28

Posts: 24

cron.daily scripts ran multiple times since cron package update

Since cron package update I get a weird behaviour with cron.daily scripts. Indeed these scripts are executed multiple times, which is somewhat annoying for big backup.
I added this little script in cron.daily to show this :

#!/bin/bash
# Test cron
date >> /var/log/date_cron

And I get this :

Mon Feb 22 11:27:53 CET 2010
Tue Feb 23 11:27:13 CET 2010
Tue Feb 23 11:37:16 CET 2010
Tue Feb 23 11:44:45 CET 2010
Wed Feb 24 12:05:08 CET 2010
Wed Feb 24 12:15:59 CET 2010
Wed Feb 24 12:22:59 CET 2010
Thu Feb 25 12:24:32 CET 2010
Thu Feb 25 12:31:49 CET 2010
Thu Feb 25 12:35:01 CET 2010
Thu Feb 25 12:45:30 CET 2010
Fri Feb 26 12:44:37 CET 2010
Fri Feb 26 12:52:56 CET 2010
Fri Feb 26 13:02:18 CET 2010
Sat Feb 27 13:04:10 CET 2010
Sat Feb 27 13:13:50 CET 2010
Sat Feb 27 13:22:06 CET 2010
Sat Feb 27 13:28:49 CET 2010
Sun Feb 28 13:29:49 CET 2010
Sun Feb 28 13:35:19 CET 2010
Sun Feb 28 13:44:18 CET 2010
Sun Feb 28 13:49:52 CET 2010
Mon Mar  1 13:38:06 CET 2010
Mon Mar  1 13:47:02 CET 2010
Mon Mar  1 13:55:55 CET 2010
Tue Mar  2 13:58:21 CET 2010
Tue Mar  2 14:01:56 CET 2010
Tue Mar  2 14:08:14 CET 2010
Wed Mar  3 14:06:35 CET 2010
Wed Mar  3 14:15:44 CET 2010
Wed Mar  3 14:24:24 CET 2010
Thu Mar  4 14:25:04 CET 2010
Thu Mar  4 14:33:16 CET 2010
Thu Mar  4 14:41:33 CET 2010
Fri Mar  5 14:43:35 CET 2010
Fri Mar  5 14:47:05 CET 2010
Fri Mar  5 14:53:14 CET 2010
Sat Mar  6 14:53:32 CET 2010
Sat Mar  6 14:58:50 CET 2010
Sat Mar  6 15:04:18 CET 2010
Sun Mar  7 14:58:30 CET 2010
Sun Mar  7 14:58:30 CET 2010
Sun Mar  7 15:09:07 CET 2010
Sun Mar  7 15:13:29 CET 2010
Mon Mar  8 15:12:19 CET 2010
Mon Mar  8 15:12:19 CET 2010
Mon Mar  8 15:20:50 CET 2010
Tue Mar  9 15:24:35 CET 2010
Tue Mar  9 15:24:35 CET 2010
Tue Mar  9 15:31:58 CET 2010

We can see that the script is executed three times a day instead of one.

Here is /var/spool/cron/root :

# root crontab
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE MANUALLY! USE crontab -e INSTEAD

# man 1 crontab for acceptable formats:
#    <minute> <hour> <day> <month> <dow> <tags and command>
#    <@freq> <tags and command>

# SYSTEM DAILY/WEEKLY/... FOLDERS
@hourly         ID=sys-hourly   /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.hourly
@daily          ID=sys-daily    /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.daily
@weekly         ID=sys-weekly   /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.weekly
@monthly        ID=sys-monthly  /usr/sbin/run-cron /etc/cron.monthly

How can I restore the wanted behaviour ?

Profjim

Member

From: NYC

Registered: 2008-03-24

Posts: 658

Re: cron.daily scripts ran multiple times since cron package update

I'm the dcron developer. There's a bug, Other things have been demanding my attention the past weeks, but I'll try to track this down soon.

Leonid.I

Member

From: Aethyr

Registered: 2009-03-22

Posts: 999

Re: cron.daily scripts ran multiple times since cron package update

I'm the dcron developer. There's a bug, Other things have been demanding my attention the past weeks, but I'll try to track this down soon.

Thanks! Do you need any debug info?

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Svenstaro

Administrator

From: Germany

Registered: 2008-11-19

Posts: 393

Re: cron.daily scripts ran multiple times since cron package update

This bug still appears. Is dcron still being worked on?

Xyne

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Registered: 2008-08-03

Posts: 6,965

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Re: cron.daily scripts ran multiple times since cron package update

This bug still appears. Is dcron still being worked on?

$ crontab -l
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE MANUALLY!! USE crontab -e INSTEAD.
#

# <minute> <hour> <day> <month> <dow> <command>


0 0 1 1 * /usr/bin/update_dcron

uh-oh

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