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Description of problem: I hope I'm reporting this to the right place - cat /etc/issue => CentOS release 5.4 (Final) ... I've not done any yum update for a long time, so this might be a fixed bug, but I don't see it in the list. Here's the file /root/monitor-load ==== uptime >> /tmp/load-record at -f /root/monitor-load now + 5 minutes 2> /dev/null ==== I start it by putting the second line into a shell. The output file, /tmp/load-record, includes this: ... one record every 5 minutes until just before the switch to daylight savings time 01:48:00 up 424 days, 19:19, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 01:53:00 up 424 days, 19:24, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 01:58:00 up 424 days, 19:29, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 01:58:00 up 424 days, 19:29, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 01:58:00 up 424 days, 19:29, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 01:58:00 up 424 days, 19:29, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 01:58:00 up 424 days, 19:29, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 01:58:00 up 424 days, 19:29, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 01:58:00 up 424 days, 19:29, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 01:58:00 up 424 days, 19:29, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 and now we seem to be running the job as soon as possible until 01:59:59 up 424 days, 19:31, 1 user, load average: 2.23, 0.84, 0.30 01:59:59 up 424 days, 19:31, 1 user, load average: 2.23, 0.84, 0.30 01:59:59 up 424 days, 19:31, 1 user, load average: 2.23, 0.84, 0.30 03:00:00 up 424 days, 19:31, 1 user, load average: 2.23, 0.84, 0.30 03:05:00 up 424 days, 19:36, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.30, 0.21 03:10:00 up 424 days, 19:41, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.10, 0.14 I suspect that at 1:58, now + 5 minutes is interpreted as 2:03 and that in turn is somehow viewed as 1:03, which means run it immediately. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How can I tell?
I'm aware of this issue rhbz#435765, but I didn't find solution yet. It's more probable that it will be fixed in Fedora in future. Imho backport in RHEL is not likely. Version of component is simple: 'rpm -q at'.