[Xymon] tasks.cfg - strange CRONDATE behaviour

[Jeremy Laidman]

On Tuesday, 3 June 2014, Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au> wrote:

> Interesting.  Does this only happen when the run timestamp is on or near
> the start of each minute?  I'm testing this now, with a CRONDATE
> specification of "*/2 * * * *" (to run every 2 minutes) but I'm not seeing
> the same behaviour - it runs only once every 2 minutes.  I might have to
> wait until the run time drifts towards the start of the minute to see the
> same thing as you.


Yep, when it drifted to 2 seconds after the minute mark I started seeing my
script run twice.  When 3 seconds after the minute, it only runs once.
 Although on one occasion when at 2 seconds past the minute, it only ran
once.

Tue Jun 3 15:48:03 EST 2014
Tue Jun 3 15:50:02 EST 2014
Tue Jun 3 15:50:59 EST 2014
Tue Jun 3 15:52:03 EST 2014
Tue Jun 3 15:54:02 EST 2014
Tue Jun 3 15:54:58 EST 2014
Tue Jun 3 15:56:03 EST 2014
Tue Jun 3 15:58:02 EST 2014
Tue Jun 3 16:00:00 EST 2014
Tue Jun 3 16:00:57 EST 2014
Tue Jun 3 16:02:02 EST 2014
Tue Jun 3 16:04:00 EST 2014
Tue Jun 3 16:04:57 EST 2014
Tue Jun 3 16:06:00 EST 2014
Tue Jun 3 16:06:58 EST 2014

etc.

J
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