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Every now and then cron runs multiple times on Fedora 14. This is a new
server and very little is running on it, only my colleageue and myself have
jobs running. This does not happen all the time which makes it even harder
to figure out why.
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On 05/31/2011 07:41 PM, lhp1 wrote:
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> http://old.nabble.com/file/p31742754/anomoly2011-05-30.rtf
> anomoly2011-05-30.rtf
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> Every now and then cron runs multiple times on Fedora 14. This is a new
> server and very little is running on it, only my colleageue and myself have
> jobs running. This does not happen all the time which makes it even harder
> to figure out why.

The duplicate entries look like sub-processes giving the impression of
it running twice, e.g.

May 30 05:00:10 flightdb crontab[1254]: (mysql) LIST (mysql)
May 30 05:00:10 flightdb crontab[1253]: (mysql) LIST (mysql)

May 30 05:00:10 flightdb crontab[1255]: (mysql) REPLACE (mysql)
May 30 05:00:10 flightdb crontab[1256]: (mysql) REPLACE (mysql)

This is supported by the sequence of the pid, indicating that the LIST
and REPLACE are sub processes.

Is the TIME on the machine correctly sync'd via NTP ?

Albert.

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The server is synced to NTP. Last night another daily job called
updatePhysicalView.sh executed 3 times. I've verified that there is only
one instance of crond running. Is it possible that crond could be spawning
other cron processes that cause the jobs to execute? It would be useful if
there was a way to include the id of the process that executed the cron job.
Is it possible to increase log levels in Fedora to get more info?

Jun 1 01:00:01 flightdb CROND[18810]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib64/sa/sa1 -S DISK
1 1)
Jun 1 01:01:01 flightdb CROND[18842]: (root) CMD (run-parts
/etc/cron.hourly)
Jun 1 01:01:01 flightdb run-parts(/etc/cron.hourly)[18842]: starting
0anacron
Jun 1 01:01:01 flightdb anacron[18852]: Anacron started on 2011-06-01
Jun 1 01:01:01 flightdb run-parts(/etc/cron.hourly)[18854]: finished
0anacron
Jun 1 01:01:01 flightdb run-parts(/etc/cron.hourly)[18842]: starting
mcelog.cron
Jun 1 01:01:01 flightdb anacron[18852]: Normal exit (0 jobs run)
Jun 1 01:01:01 flightdb run-parts(/etc/cron.hourly)[18861]: finished
mcelog.cron
Jun 1 01:10:01 flightdb CROND[19028]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib64/sa/sa1 -S DISK
1 1)
Jun 1 01:12:01 flightdb CROND[19067]: (rfdb) CMD
(/home/rfdb/prod/scripts/shell/updateTimePeriods.sh)
Jun 1 01:15:01 flightdb CROND[19161]: (rfdb) CMD
(/home/rfdb/prod/scripts/shell/updateDailyJobs.sh)
Jun 1 01:18:02 flightdb CROND[19212]: (rfdb) CMD
(/home/rfdb/prod/scripts/shell/updatePhysicalView.sh)
Jun 1 01:18:12 flightdb CROND[19239]: (rfdb) CMD
(/home/rfdb/prod/scripts/shell/updatePhysicalView.sh)
Jun 1 01:18:22 flightdb CROND[19266]: (rfdb) CMD
(/home/rfdb/prod/scripts/shell/updatePhysicalView.sh)
Jun 1 01:20:01 flightdb CROND[19336]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib64/sa/sa1 -S DISK
1 1)
Jun 1 01:30:01 flightdb CROND[19525]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib64/sa/sa1 -S DISK
1 1)
Jun 1 01:40:01 flightdb CROND[19735]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib64/sa/sa1 -S DISK
1 1)
Jun 1 01:50:01 flightdb CROND[19889]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib64/sa/sa1 -S DISK
1 1)
Jun 1 02:00:01 flightdb CROND[20077]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib64/sa/sa1 -S DISK
1 1)
Jun 1 02:01:01 flightdb CROND[20087]: (root) CMD (run-parts
/etc/cron.hourly)
Jun 1 02:01:01 flightdb run-parts(/etc/cron.hourly)[20087]: starting
0anacron
Jun 1 02:01:01 flightdb anacron[20098]: Anacron started on 2011-06-01
Jun 1 02:01:01 flightdb run-parts(/etc/cron.hourly)[20100]: finished
0anacron
Jun 1 02:01:01 flightdb run-parts(/etc/cron.hourly)[20087]: starting
mcelog.cron
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Root cause not known yet. However, the problem is directly related to the
NTP service. The box is also running vmware under Fedora 14. Do not have
any further info as I'm not a primary admin of the vmware. I do know that
the cron issue was resolved when NTP service was stopped. Also, I found
that the ntpdate service had no effect on syncing up the date when I did try
to run it.
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