SUMMARY: cron executes jobs twice (was Re: cron executes two times)

From: randy@ninja.megatek.uucp
Date: Wed May 13 1992 - 19:14:33 CDT


In article <1992May12.101611.14800@news.cs.indiana.edu> Jan Van den Bussche <vdbuss@bigeye.cs.indiana.edu> writes:
|On a Sparc station 1 under SunOS 4.0.3c, I have the following problem.
|Every crontab command is executed twice.

  Time for me to post that summary, since I just asked this question two weeks
back and recieved many helpful answers:

  And the answer is...

  Aquire patch 100058 from Sun. The double cronjob bug is a known potential
bug in SunOS 4.0 through 4.1.1 on both sun3 and sun4 architectures.

 - thanks to all that responded with solutions to my query:

Kenneth Herron <uunet!ms.uky.edu!kherron>
David W. Abbott <uunet!ossi.com!dwa>
uunet!toet.echo.philips.nl!aadt (Aadt Jansen)
uunet!IBX.COM!steve (Steve Giuliano)
uunet!micom.com!root (Todd L. Kindig @ Micom Comm. Corp.)
uunet!wsrcc.com!wolfgang (Wolfgang S. Rupprecht)
uunet!fjtld!jca (54628-J. Antrosiglio)
Ken Sallenger <uunet!animal.csd.scarolina.edu!ken>
uunet!oce.nl!alau (Fons Laudy)

  Especially John Antrosiglio @ AT&T, who not only knew the patch number, but
offered additional assistance...

  A couple suggested an upgrade to a later OS version, but the bug still
potentially exists there, so that is no guarantee to work...

Thanks again,

Randy Davis UUCP: megatek!randy@uunet.uu.net
Network and System Administrator ucsd!megatek.uucp!randy
Megatek Corporation



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Fri Sep 28 2001 - 23:06:42 CDT