On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > For some reason I cannot fathom, > cron.hourly runs twice each hour > on one of my two CentOS-5.4 systems, > as reported in /var/log/cron: > ------------------------- > Mar 16 14:01:01 helen crond[27833]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly) > Mar 16 14:01:01 helen crond[27834]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly) > ------------------------- > On the other it just runs once, as expected. > ------------------------- > Mar 16 13:01:01 althea crond[23373]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly) > Mar 16 14:01:01 althea crond[23553]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly) > Mar 16 15:01:01 althea crond[23695]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly) > ------------------------- > > This doesn't have any bad effect, > but it does run the scripts in /etc/cron.hourly twice. > > I just wonder if anyone has come across this curiosity? > Or can suggest any possible cause. hourly, daily, weekly and monthly jobs are configured in /etc/crontab. What's your /etc/crontab look like? Are you seeing the same behavior for daily/weekly jobs? Have you simply tried restarting the cron service? Jeff _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos