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Hi! |
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On all my servers I receive from time to time (usually once in 5-30 days) |
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email with subject subj :) and content: |
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find: /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly: No such file or directory |
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I suppose this is because of race condition somethere in /usr/sbin/run-crons. |
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Root's default crontab is: |
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*/15 * * * * test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons |
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0 * * * * rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly |
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0 8 * * * rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily |
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15 11 * * 6 rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.weekly |
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30 12 1 * * rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.monthly |
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and I think if first two lines from crontab will start at same time and |
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/usr/sbin/run-crons will check for existence of lastrun/cron.hourly |
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__BEFORE__ rm will remove it then race condition happens and result in |
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that email sent to root. |
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Can anybody confirm this? |
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If I'm right, then maybe better to change last 4 lines in crontab to not |
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run in %15 minute: |
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*/15 * * * * test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons |
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5 * * * * rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly |
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5 8 * * * rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily |
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20 11 * * 6 rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.weekly |
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35 12 1 * * rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.monthly |
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WBR, Alex. |
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