If I do a 'ps -ef' on my system I see the following:-
root 17343 1 0 04:02 ? 00:00:00 crond
root 17344 17343 0 04:02 ? 00:00:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.daily
root 18023 17344 0 05:05 ? 00:00:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.daily
Why does '/bin/bash /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.daily' appear to be
spawning a copy of itself just over an hour after it started? I have
looked at the /usr/bin/run-parts script and I really can't see a
reason why it should do this unless one of the scripts in /etc/cron.daily
is doing something wierd and I have only added a very simple backup
script there.
Oh, this is on Fedora 7 by the way.
... and yes, it is a problem, the rsync backups were tripping over
themselves.
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Chris Green
