Bug 3984

Summary:	Race in crontab
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	george <gk>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Thilo Bangert (RETIRED) (RETIRED) <bangert>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	trivial
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description george 2002-06-21 10:37:40 UTC

I was receiving occasional emails from cron telling me that while running run-crons, /var/spool/cron/lastrun/<whichever> didn't exist.  I think that this was caused by a race between run-crons and the corresponding rm cron job.  I have changed the minutes entry of the run-crons line in /etc/crontab from "*/15" to "1-59/15" to delay it by one minute.  Since making the change - no more emails.  Of course as this was an occasional problem this could be luck but it looks good to me.  This isn't a big deal as the cronjobs do run, but unnecessary error emails irritate me :(  FWIW I'm running vcron 3.0.1-r1.

Comment 1 Thilo Bangert (RETIRED) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-06-21 16:38:03 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 3966 ***