[CentOS] crond sometimes launches a child process?

2013-09-16 Thread Rafał Radecki
Hi All.

I monitor number of crond processes on my machines. On one of them I have 2
crond processes for a short period of time (few minutes) everyday. It is at
the same time when one jobs starts to run - a sphinx indexer.

What are the possible causes of crond running a child crond process?

Best regards,
Rafal.
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Re: [CentOS] crond sometimes launches a child process?

2013-09-16 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 10:34:40AM +0200, Rafał Radecki wrote:
 Hi All.
 
 I monitor number of crond processes on my machines. On one of them I have 2
 crond processes for a short period of time (few minutes) everyday. It is at
 the same time when one jobs starts to run - a sphinx indexer.
 
 What are the possible causes of crond running a child crond process?

cron fork()s child processes to invoke the actual jobs under; this is
normal behavior.





John
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