cron running at odd times?

[Adam Funk]

On 2012-02-21, Knute Johnson wrote:

> On 2/20/2012 1:11 PM, Adam Funk wrote:

>> OK, the only other thing I can think of is this: I'm fairly sure the
>> scripts in /etc/cron.daily are run in alphabetical order (starting
>> with the numbers).  Maybe the script before your custom one is (for
>> some strange reason) occasionally taking a long time to complete?
>>
>> (HTH)
>>
>>
>
> That could be.  My script is alphabetically the last script.  The thing 
> is it wasn't just delayed, it ran an extra time at the odd hour.  Or 
> maybe it was delayed from two days before, I don't know.  Anyway, it 
> hasn't done it again so maybe it was just some crazy blib.

Ah well, it's impossible to debug something that only happens once!

If it happens again, I think you could add invocations of the logger
command to the beginnings & ends of some of the cron.daily scripts so
that you'll get a record of exactly when they started & finished.