Bug 484248

Summary: Cron not running multiple jobs against same script in xen DomU
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: ali <aliahsan81>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 10CC: berrange, kernel-maint, kraxel, mmaslano, pertusus, tmraz, virt-maint, xen-maint
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Description ali 2009-02-05 16:33:12 UTC
Description of problem:


crontabs-1.10-25.fc10.noarch
How reproducible:
I have a user ABC when i put cronjobs using this user crontab.I login with ABC user and do crontab -e.When i add multiple job against same script more them 10 jobs that run on same time.This is a bash script run certwatch script for different domain daily  at 09 19.But cron seems to run this job fine and no error in log but script dont show any out put after job is run in script log.In other word script dont run successfully .We recently upgraded from f8 to f10.And this problem was not in f8.I have test on number of fedora 10 system but cron dont see to work.


Steps to Reproduce:
1.Log with user ABC
2.do crontab -e
3.Add many jobs against same script like 09 19 * * * /home/YOUR_BASH_SCRIPT
4 Add more then 10 jobs.

  
Actual results:
It dont run any job given at same time againt same script

Expected results:
It should run jobs that are given same time again same script.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Tomas Mraz 2009-02-05 16:55:20 UTC
I cannot reproduce this on rawhide - I tried simple job which does date >>logfile. I've added it 12 times with the crontab -e and it appears that it runs 12 times - that means the same date is appended 12 times.

Comment 2 ali 2009-02-05 16:58:58 UTC
Thanks for replying

I also like to mention i am using Xen Virtual machine.

Comment 3 Marcela Mašláňová 2009-02-06 08:53:32 UTC
There are some other issues with cron on xen machines. Isn't there problem with selinux? 
This test case passed just fine on QEMU virtual machine.

Comment 4 Mark McLoughlin 2009-02-06 12:36:03 UTC
If this does turn out to be a xen specific issue, it will be a problem with the kernel rather than xen userspace

Comment 5 ali 2009-02-06 17:23:41 UTC
Hi 


After testing few things  i am back.

1) When i run cron job with the space of 2 min under user ABC.It runs fine and no problem.

2) For testing i put the cron file in /etc/cron.d and run it on same time with user root .But same result it was not able to run the script and no error in logs.

But you can say there might be a problem in script.But this not be the case if script run from cron if i give 2 min difference between every job.And this script is not that much process hungry.

3) for testing i again today run the script on fc8 xen machine.And it runs fine.

I like to mention  kernel details of my new f10 machine

2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.i686.PAE

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