[wellylug] cron lock file ?

[David Antliff]

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, E.Chalaron wrote:

> Hi there
> I have a couple of cron jobs. They work fine, still, I did modifiy the time
> to start /etc/cron.daily and it seems that the script is executed at the new
> time and the old one, e.g. I get 2 emails notification (daily) that makes me
> think that it is done twice

That's a little weird. Did you restart the cron daemon, or at least send
it a HUP signal so it would re-read the crontab? Doesn't really explain
what you're seeing - unless you have two cron daemon processes running at
the same time?

$ ps aux | grep [c]ron


-- 
David.