Re: Fedora 14 cron sometimes executes multiple times

2011-06-28 Thread lhp1
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

Re: Fedora 14 cron sometimes executes multiple times

2011-06-01 Thread lhp1
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

Fedora 14 cron sometimes executes multiple times

2011-05-31 Thread lhp1
http://old.nabble.com/file/p31742754/anomoly2011-05-30.rtf anomoly2011-05-30.rtf 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 e