Re: cron job problem
| From: | Daniel Brown | Date: | Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:56:42 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: cron job problem | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Jim Giner <jim.giner@albanyhandball.com> wrote:
> I have a php script that has been triggered by my hoster's cron process(?)
> to run once a day since last March. It's been running fine - and I've made
> no changes to it. Suddenly in the last couple of days it is running twice
> it seems. The whole process sends an email at its conclusion and the
> receipient tells me today that she's getting two emails only a minute apart.
>
> Any ideas on why this might happen? I haven't contact my host company yet -
> thought I'd ask around first.
Though not really a PHP question, there are several reasons this
could happen, including a race condition that is being encountered due
to a slowdown of the host system or changes to the system's
environment. Are the emails she's receiving identical?
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</Daniel P. Brown>
Network Infrastructure Manager
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