From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Description of problem: After updating to fedora core I got emails that told i'm running parallel instances of mrtg. I look and look where the problem could be. Didn't find. Only line of mrtg which i had was in /etc/crontab 0-59/5 * * * * root /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg Then I replaced that mrtg bin with shellscript that did logger mrtg: $@ ps auxwf Got only 1 email, but noticed two mrtg's running in ps output and two identical lines in /var/log/messages .. hitting head to the wall and thinking.. then i tried with */5 * * * * root /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg and got only one email and line in messages. So wtf? Altered that back to 0-59/5 and got 1 email, 2 lines in messages. So there has to be some weird bug in new vixie-cron which cannot handle that 0-59/5 right, which should be correct syntax. Umm, it seems that it does it with */5 sometimes.. weird.. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.0.1-76 How reproducible: Didn't try Additional info:
That cron.d thingie, where did that came from :)