From: Panagiotis Atmatzidis <atma@...>
Date: 2013-01-22T09:55:24+09:00
Subject: script gets executed multiple times by cron

Hello,

I'm running this script https://gist.github.com/4591053 on a freebsd (default) crontab server using RVM + cron configuration. I don't know for which reason
but the program gets executed multiple times. I just want to execute the program one time every day at 4 a.m. (local time).

Here's my freebsd user crontab:
---
[atma@comodino ~/Code/rankclient]$ crontab -l
# atma's crontab!

# Shell variables for crontab
SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash
PATH=/home/atma/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin:/home/atma/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@global/bin:/home/atma/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin:/home/atma/.rvm/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/home/atma/bin:/home/atma/.rvm/bin
RUBYLIB=/home/atma/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/1.9.1/
GEM_HOME=/home/atma/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194
GEM_PATH=/home/atma/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194:/home/atma/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@global

* 4 * * * /home/atma/Code/rankclient/rankclient.rb 
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When I'm running this script manually everything works fine. But when I'm running this script using crontab, well it gets execute 10+ times in a row.

Any idea why this happens?


Panagiotis (atmosx) Atmatzidis

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