On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 16:59 -0400, Jim Giner wrote: > On 10/23/2012 4:56 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Jim Giner <jim.giner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I have a php script that has been triggered by my hoster's cron process(?) > >> to run once a day since last March. It's been running fine - and I've made > >> no changes to it. Suddenly in the last couple of days it is running twice > >> it seems. The whole process sends an email at its conclusion and the > >> receipient tells me today that she's getting two emails only a minute apart. > >> > >> Any ideas on why this might happen? I haven't contact my host company yet - > >> thought I'd ask around first. > > > > Though not really a PHP question, there are several reasons this > > could happen, including a race condition that is being encountered due > > to a slowdown of the host system or changes to the system's > > environment. Are the emails she's receiving identical? > > > Yes - same msg same time > Are they definitely only in the cron list once? Could someone have tried to "help" by adding the job into the daily.cron, but forgotten to remove it from the regular crontab? -- Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
