On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 03:01:48PM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: > > > (y/n [n]) not overwritten > > > > Not the answer you are looking for, but the entropy cronjob is an example > > of the type of cronjob that IMVHO should not be run in jails. > > > > Probably not :) The point is though that there is no reason why we > should be getting permission errors here, save some kind of race > condition. > Ok, I've found the cause of the problem. Cron is spawning more than one copy of the entropy script... I've got the same problem with the election script I run on the server: obleo# crontab -u root -l # Run the election process */2 * * * * ~joe/elections/cronjobs/doit obleo# grep doit /var/log/cron | tail Jun 2 14:00:00 obleo /usr/sbin/cron[90837]: (root) CMD (~joe/elections/cronjobs/doit) Jun 2 14:00:01 obleo /usr/sbin/cron[90904]: (root) CMD (~joe/elections/cronjobs/doit) Jun 2 14:02:00 obleo /usr/sbin/cron[91017]: (root) CMD (~joe/elections/cronjobs/doit) Jun 2 14:02:00 obleo /usr/sbin/cron[91048]: (root) CMD (~joe/elections/cronjobs/doit) Jun 2 14:04:00 obleo /usr/sbin/cron[91162]: (root) CMD (~joe/elections/cronjobs/doit) Jun 2 14:04:00 obleo /usr/sbin/cron[91166]: (root) CMD (~joe/elections/cronjobs/doit) Jun 2 14:06:00 obleo /usr/sbin/cron[91297]: (root) CMD (~joe/elections/cronjobs/doit) Jun 2 14:06:00 obleo /usr/sbin/cron[91301]: (root) CMD (~joe/elections/cronjobs/doit) Jun 2 14:08:00 obleo /usr/sbin/cron[91402]: (root) CMD (~joe/elections/cronjobs/doit) Jun 2 14:08:00 obleo /usr/sbin/cron[91448]: (root) CMD (~joe/elections/cronjobs/doit) obleo# ps -auxww | grep cron root 23586 0.0 0.0 1396 948 ?? IsJ Mon01PM 0:00.83 /usr/sbin/cron There's only one running!!! Joe -- Josef Karthauser (joe_at_tao.org.uk) http://www.josef-k.net/ FreeBSD (cvs meister, admin and hacker) http://www.uk.FreeBSD.org/ Physics Particle Theory (student) http://www.pact.cpes.sussex.ac.uk/ ================ An eclectic mix of fact and theory. =================
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