From: Matt Lawrence <matt@...>
Date: 2013-01-22T10:29:10+09:00
Subject: Re: script gets executed multiple times by cron

On Tue, 22 Jan 2013, Panagiotis Atmatzidis wrote:

> 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

Try putting something in the minutes field.

-- Matt
It's not what I know that counts.
It's what I can remember in time to use.