[wellylug] cron lock file ?

Enkidu enkidu at cliffp.com
Tue Sep 28 17:16:22 NZST 2004


On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:17:36 +1200 (NZST), you wrote:
>
>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
>
As I understand cron (which is not well), it doesn't need to be told
that the crontab has been updated.

Cheers,

Cliff




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