on 13:42 Tue 22 Mar, Ed Curtis (e_cur...@homes2see.com) wrote: > Maybe someone can help out with this. I have a bash script I run at > 1am every morning via an entry in cron.d. It records an echo in a > file when done so I can record it running. The trouble I'm having > with it is that it's recording that's it has completed about once a > minute from the hour starting a 1 am until 2 am!. I'm not sure it's > actually running that entire time. I can't imagine that it would run > exactly for a perfect hour then stop. If I run the script by hand it > only takes a few minutes and records only one entry into my log > file. > > In /etc/cron.d/backuppublishers I have.... > > * 1 * * * root /bin/backuppublishers ^ is your problem
Your cron spec specifies "run every minute, for the first hour, of every day, of every month, and every weekday". You would want to specify some specific minute: 1 1 * * * root /bin/backuppublishers ... says: run on the first minute, of the first hour, ... -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist / | Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist | When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlimited | Go to Krell! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110322182041.gc3...@altaira.krellpowersys.exo
