Another item to check: Faulty time service might produce such duplication. The first cron job would run on the old time; the time updates; it then runs the job again. There would not be a 3rd run because the clock is now correct.
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 08:23:30PM -0400, John wrote: > For quite some time now my system has been executing all entries in the > crontab twice, instead of the expected once. This happens most obviously > for the periodic scripts, but also on some scripts that I added for > nightly, weekly, or runs at reboot. This started not long after a > buildworld upgrade from one 4.x to another 4.x. Which upgrade, I don't > recall unfortunately. The executions of the scripts appear to occur within > minutes of each other, if not seconds. > > I checked /var/cron/tabs/root, and all entries are in there only once. > > Cron is also only running as a single process. > > The system is running 4.8-RC. > > Any thoughts of where to look and what to look for? _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"