Subject: Re: Problems with cron on netbsd-4
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Chris Ross <cross+netbsd@distal.com>
List: current-users
Date: 10/27/2007 09:27:18
On Oct 27, 2007, at 06:29, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 09:43:44PM -0400, Chris Ross wrote:
>>   However, it runs once a minute.  At least.  (I've seen it run
>> twice a minute on occasion, but...)
>
> I can not reproduce this on NetBSD/sparc64 4.0RC2

   It stopped for me as well.  If you notice the traces I sent,  
you'll see:

[20024] TargetTime=1193449324, sec-to-wait=60
[20024] sleeping for 60 seconds
[20024] tick(0,19,30,11,3)
[20024] TargetTime=1193449384, sec-to-wait=60
[20024] TargetTime=1193449384, sec-to-wait=60
[20024] sleeping for 60 seconds
[20024] sleeping for 59 seconds
[20024] tick(0,19,30,11,3)
[20024] TargetTime=1193449444, sec-to-wait=60
[20024] TargetTime=1193449444, sec-to-wait=60

   Even beyond that, there were other "tick()" output lines, all of  
which indicated that it was 19:00 on December 30th.  Each time.  I  
presume perhaps I had screwed something up trying to compile a new  
binary, and something went awry.  Another later compilation yielded a  
binary that produced:

[29416] tick(56,21,25,9,5)
[29416] tick(57,21,25,9,5)
[29416] tick(58,21,25,9,5)

   when run the same way.  So...

   I think this was an anomaly that has gone away.  Sorry all.

                   - Chris