Re: cron.monthly runs on 7/31 and 8/1

[Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Patrick Nelson writes:

> FC3 updated
>
> One of my systems ran the monthly cron jobs in /etc/cron.monthly on 7/31 
> and also on 8/1.  Does anyone know what would cause this?  I did check 
> that there were not duplicates there.

The 7/31 run was probably kicked off by anacron, because your system was 
probably turned off on July 1st at 4:42am, so cron.monthly did not run at 
that time, and since then your system wasn't on enough, continuously, since 
then, for anacron to pick up the slack, until the 31st.

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