Wayne Topa wrote: > David Liontooth([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: >> >> I'm running a script as a cron job on four machines, and get an e-mail >> every time the job is completed. On three machines, the time stamp is the >> time of the completion of the job; on the last one, the time stamp is >> five minutes earlier. I've checked the time on the machine; it's correct >> (maintained with ntpdate). What could possibly be causing a mail to be >> timestamped five minutes (consistently) before the cron job it reports is >> over? >> > It would help if you, at least mention, which version of cron, and > what you are running (stable, etch, testing, or unstable). Also the > same info on the machines that are working. This list can give you a > lot of help but only if you help us, help you. >
Hi Wayne, Thanks -- this is Debian sid with cron 3.0pl1-99 and exim4 4.63-11 with exim4-base, exim4-config, and exim4-daemon-light. I'm just wondering in principle what could cause the timestamp to drift -- isn't it created when the job is done? The typical e-mail receipt looks like below -- note that at the bottom it says the job completed at 19:59:56 yet the e-mail is dated 19:46:03. How is this possible? Dave Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:46:03 -0800 From: Cron Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> channel 60, 60min, "On the Record with Greta", 4 Using pisa's drive tv1 with 195GB free Preparing to record 2006-12-22_1900_FOX-News_On_the_Record_with_Greta Initiating recording by pisa of 2006-12-22_1900_FOX-News_On_the_Record_with_Greta from channel 60, on capture card 4, at 19:00:02, duration 3594 seconds MP3 audio selected. Forcing audio preload to 0, max pts correction to 0. 1 duplicate frame(s)! 1 duplicate frame(s)! 1 duplicate frame(s)! CBR audio: 16000 bytes/sec, 576 bytes/block -rw-r--r-- 1 tna tna 421921446 2006-12-22 19:59 /tv1/2006/2006-12/2006-12-22/2006-12-22_1900_FOX-News_On_the_Record_with_Greta.avi -rw-r--r-- 1 tna tna 59703 2006-12-22 19:59 /tv1/2006/2006-12/2006-12-22/2006-12-22_1900_FOX-News_On_the_Record_with_Greta.txt Completed capture by pisa on Friday 22 December 2006 at 19:59:56 Video and audio file size 403M Closed captioning file size 60K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]