Cron jobs repeating

Good_Oyster · January 30, 2007, 9:56pm

I’ve got a couple of cron jobs set up to run on a daily basis at a specific time. For instance, one runs every day M-F @ 2:50pm to send some lead data to about 600 subscribers via email. Today the thing ran 5 separate times - at 2:40pm, 2:50pm, 2:53pm, 2:55pm, and 3:01pm.

This has also happened quite a few times with another cron job that is set up for me to retrieve data from a remote FTP location. It may retrieve the same stuff 3 or 4 times.

What causes this to happen? Is it a problem in the cron program? Is there something I need to do in the cron set up to avoid these problems?

Stephen · January 30, 2007, 10:00pm

This is linux cron or a cf schedule(I think you may have had one or two of them)

Good_Oyster · January 30, 2007, 10:14pm

These are Linux cron. I set up a linux account, and run the cron jobs there to call cf pages on the other server.

Stephen · January 30, 2007, 11:18pm

Ok, I will let a linux admin answer then, not my specialty

Deepak-JH · January 30, 2007, 11:52pm

Please provide us with some details (like domain name) through ticket so that we can investigate this.

Good_Oyster · January 31, 2007, 1:50am

I’ll wait until tomorrow’s scheduled run and see if it repeats. If it does, I’ll post a ticket.