On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 09:39:36AM -0500, Robert Locke wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 10:24 +0000, Chris G wrote: > > 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. > > > > Hi Chris, > > Look at anacron. Specifically, /etc/anacrontab. > That could be it I guess, this system is normally on all the time but I have rebooted it a few times recently so anacron would have been run. Thanks. -- Chris Green
