Has anyone noticed duplicate cron jobs being run?  It doesn't happen all 
the time, so it may not have been noticed by me until I installed mrtg 
(which runs a root cron job every 5 minutes).  At first, I thought it was a 
bug with mrtg, since the error email complained that the mrtg lockfile 
already existed, but everything seemed to be working anyway.  I then added 
MAILTO="devnull" (where devnull is a bit-bucket alias).  Oddly, I still 
seem to get messages from root, despite the fact that the MAILTO line says 
not to send to root!  It's almost like crond is running a second instance 
at the same time, but screwing up some of the info (like the MAILTO 
line).  I am running mandrake 6.1.

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