crontab running twice but ps ax shows only one crond process - linux

I am trying to run a crontab which executes a bash script which triggers mail command. I have done only one entry in crontab for my user. Also doing ps ax | grep cron results only one crond process. I don't know why i am getting mails twice
Cron logs
Aug 7 14:38:10 centos crond[29299]: (CRON) INFO (RANDOM_DELAY will be scaled with factor 85% if used.)
Aug 7 14:38:11 centos crond[29299]: (CRON) INFO (running with inotify support)
Aug 7 14:38:11 centos crond[29299]: (CRON) INFO (#reboot jobs will be run at computer's startup.)
Aug 7 14:40:01 centos CROND[29376]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib64/sa/sa1 1 1)
Aug 7 14:50:01 centos CROND[29940]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib64/sa/sa1 1 1)
Aug 7 14:59:01 centos CROND[30388]: (test_user) CMD (bash /home/test_user/dev/mail_test_user.sh)
Aug 7 15:00:01 centos CROND[30585]: (test_user) CMD (bash /home/test_user/dev/mail_test_user.sh)
Aug 7 15:00:01 centos CROND[30586]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib64/sa/sa1 1 1)
Aug 7 15:01:01 centos CROND[30775]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
Aug 7 15:01:01 centos run-parts(/etc/cron.hourly)[30775]: starting 0anacron
Aug 7 15:01:01 centos run-parts(/etc/cron.hourly)[30787]: finished 0anacron
Aug 7 15:01:01 centos run-parts(/etc/cron.hourly)[30775]: starting 0yum-hourly.cron
Aug 7 15:01:01 centos run-parts(/etc/cron.hourly)[30795]: finished 0yum-hourly.cron
Crontab list
#reboot autossh -M 8000 -f -N -R 9000:localhost:22 remote_user#192.168.0.3
#reboot autossh -M 8002 -f -N -R 9001:localhost:5901 remote_user#192.168.0.3
#reboot autossh -M 8004 -f -N -R 9002:localhost:80 remote_user#192.168.0.3
0,59 * * * * bash /home/vikas/dev/mail_test_user.sh
Contents of mail_test_user.sh
echo "I am up :)))" | mail -s "Notification : test_user#centos.localdomain [STAG]" foobaar22#gmail.com
ps aux | grep cron results
root 29299 0.0 0.0 126300 1692 ? Ss 14:38 0:00 /usr/sbin/crond -n
test_user 31650 0.0 0.0 112640 964 pts/0 S+ 15:13 0:00 grep --color=auto cron
Any luck why the hack this is happening ?
I also tried rebooting and restarting crond but not working.

The second line is result of your grep command. This is process of grep command not your cronjob process. Because it matches your search criteria.

The error is in setting up cronjob it should be */59 instead of 0/59.

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How to send UDP packet from Debian 9 CRON?

I am trying with these 2 scripts:
test1,sh:
#!/bin/sh
NOW=$(date +"NOW;%Y;%m;%d;%H;%M;%S")
echo -n $NOW | nc -u -q 2 -w 2 192.168.0.252 4210
test2.sh:
#!/bin/sh
NOW=$(date +'NOW;%Y;%m;%d;%H;%M;%S')
echo -n $NOW > /dev/udp/192.168.0.252/4210
Both scripts works fine when directly execute on terminal, client successfully receiving the UDP packets.
*/5 * * * * root /etc/test/test1.sh
*/5 * * * * root /etc/test/test2.sh
But doesn't work when executing in CRON, client did not receive the UDP packets.
**sudo grep CRON /var/log/syslog**
Mar 10 16:40:01 localhost CRON[12281]: (CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output)
Mar 10 16:40:01 localhost CRON[12286]: (root) CMD (command -v debian-sa1 > /dev/null && debian-sa1 1 1)
Mar 10 16:40:01 localhost CRON[12287]: (root) CMD (root /etc/test/test1.sh)
Mar 10 16:40:01 localhost CRON[12289]: (root) CMD (root /etc/test/test2.sh)
Please help
Is the next to last block the output of crontab -l? Looks to me like there's an extra "root" in there.
The hint is in your syslog output:
Mar 10 16:40:01 localhost CRON[12289]: (root) CMD (root /etc/test/test2.sh)
Remove the root from your crontab and you'll have better luck.

2 questions, cron job not running restart, kill not gracefully restarting

I put the following cron job in my root crontab under var/spool/cron
*/5 * * * * service php-fpm-5.5.11 restart
I see it called in the cron logs every 5 minutes, so I know it is being called, but it is not restarting php-fpm.
Question 1:
Is there a different way to restart services when calling them in cron?
What would be the correct way to call this restart?
Another question and the root of the problem is I have another call that runs every night that sometimes kills my website altogether because php-fpm is not restarting correctly:
/bin/kill -SIGUSR1 `cat /opt/pifpm/php-5.5.11/var/run/php-fpm.pid 2>/dev/null` 2>/dev/null || true
I get:
[12-Jul-2015 00:52:29] ERROR: An another FPM instance seems to already listen on /opt/pifpm/fpmsockets/5.5.11.sock
[12-Jul-2015 00:52:29] ERROR: FPM initialization failed
Question 2
Is there a better way to call the kill statement? For instance:
[ ! -f /opt/pifpm/php-5.5.11/var/run/php-fpm.pid ] || kill -USR2 `cat /opt/pifpm/php-5.5.11/var/run/php-fpm.pid`
This is an nginx and centos setup.
Here is a portion of the cron log:
Jul 15 12:15:01 insp CROND[7325]: (root) CMD (service php-fpm-5.5.11 restart)
Jul 15 12:15:01 insp CROND[7326]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/recoverymgmt >/dev/null 2>&1)
Jul 15 12:15:01 insp CROND[7327]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/cpanel/bin/dcpumon >/dev/null 2>&1)
Jul 15 12:15:01 insp CROND[7332]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/autorepair recoverymgmt >/dev/null 2>&1)
Jul 15 12:15:01 insp CROND[7333]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/cpanel/bin/dbindex >/dev/null 2>&1)
Jul 15 12:16:53 insp /usr/bin/crontab[7530]: (root) BEGIN EDIT (root)
Jul 15 12:16:57 insp /usr/bin/crontab[7530]: (root) END EDIT (root)
Jul 15 12:20:01 insp CROND[7842]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib64/sa/sa1 1 1)
Jul 15 12:20:01 insp CROND[7845]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/cpanel/bin/dcpumon >/dev/null 2>&1)
Jul 15 12:20:01 insp CROND[7846]: (root) CMD (service php-fpm-5.5.11 restart)
Jul 15 12:20:01 insp CROND[7847]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/maldetect/maldet --mkpubpaths >> /dev/null 2>&1)
Answer to the Question number 1.
/etc/rc.d/init.d/php-fpm-5.5.11 restart is the correct path to use in cron.
The /etc/rc.d/init.d has most of the services in the directory including httpd

CouchDB won't let me DELETE. I think I have users set up correctly

I created a database "my_new_database" and "albums", neither of which I can DELETE. I believe I am still in "ADMIN" party mode. To demonstrate my issue Ill just post some info below.
First here is to show couchdb running ( started using the SystemV script via service )
$ ps aux | grep couch
couchdb 2939 0.0 0.2 108320 1528 ? S 20:45 0:00 /bin/sh -e /usr/bin/couchdb -a /etc/couchdb/default.ini -a /etc/couchdb/local.ini -b -r 0 -p /var/run/couchdb/couchdb.pid -o /dev/null -e /dev/null -R
couchdb 2950 0.0 0.1 108320 732 ? S 20:45 0:00 /bin/sh -e /usr/bin/couchdb -a /etc/couchdb/default.ini -a /etc/couchdb/local.ini -b -r 0 -p /var/run/couchdb/couchdb.pid -o /dev/null -e /dev/null -R
couchdb 2951 4.8 2.3 362168 14004 ? Sl 20:45 0:00 /usr/lib64/erlang/erts-5.8.5/bin/beam -Bd -K true -A 4 -- -root /usr/lib64/erlang -progname erl -- -home /usr/local/var/lib/couchdb -- -noshell -noinput -sasl errlog_type error -couch_ini /etc/couchdb/default.ini /etc/couchdb/local.ini /etc/couchdb/default.ini /etc/couchdb/local.ini -s couch -pidfile /var/run/couchdb/couchdb.pid -heart
couchdb 2959 0.0 0.0 3932 304 ? Ss 20:45 0:00 heart -pid 2951 -ht 11
ec2-user 2963 0.0 0.1 103424 828 pts/1 S+ 20:45 0:00 grep couch
Here is the output of the ".couch" databases I have ( shown for user ownership and permissions)
$ ls -lat /var/lib/couchdb
-rw-r--r-- 1 couchdb couchdb 23 Oct 11 20:45 couch.uri
drwxr-xr-x 3 couchdb couchdb 4096 Oct 11 19:35 .
-rw-r--r-- 1 couchdb couchdb 79 Oct 11 19:35 database2.couch
-rwxrwxrwx 1 couchdb couchdb 79 Oct 11 19:00 my_new_database.couch
-rw-r--r-- 1 couchdb couchdb 4182 Oct 4 21:52 albums.couch
-rw-r--r-- 1 couchdb couchdb 79 Oct 4 21:42 albums-backup.couch
-rw-r--r-- 1 couchdb couchdb 4185 Oct 4 21:30 _users.couch
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Oct 4 20:58 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 4 18:34 .delete
Here is my first attempt to DELETE
$ curl -X DELETE http://127.0.0.1:5984/my_new_database
{"error":"unauthorized","reason":"You are not a server admin."}
And my second attempt using an authenticated user.
$ curl -X DELETE http://brian:brian#127.0.0.1:5984/my_new_database
{"error":"error","reason":"eacces"}
The username/password of brian/brian was added to the [admin] section of /etc/couchdb/local.ini
Here is the output of my "_users" file. The "key" and "id" fields confuse me.
$ curl -X GET http://brian:brian#127.0.0.1:5984/_users/_all_docs
{"total_rows":1,"offset":0,"rows":[
{"id":"_design/_auth","key":"_design/_auth","value":{"rev":"1-c44fb12a2676d481d235523092e0cec4"}}
]}
Have you restarted your CouchDB after you added to user to local.ini? If so, has the password in the file been hashed or is it readable?
Generally your file permissions look OK, so I can't tell what exactly causes the error. For a quick fix you can simply delete the .couch file, though.
This question is really old, but since I got bitten by this today and this is where Google led me, I thought I'd share my solution for others that stumble here. In my case, my Couch lib directory (/usr/local/var/lib/couchdb for me) had a directory called .delete that was owned by root. Changing the owner to couchdb let me delete databases again.

Crontab is running command 3 times each run

I have the following crontab set up on a RHEL server ...
MAILTO=me#mydomain.com
*/2 * * * * wget --spider -q http://mydomain.com/cronjobs/importxml.php
As you can see this should run every 2 minutes, which it does, but it runs the command three times and I can't figure out why.
If I run
tail /var/log/cron
I get the following
Dec 12 13:56:01 msvsc02-g283nc crond[1431]: (root) RELOAD (cron/root)
Dec 12 13:56:01 msvsc02-g283nc crond[3224]: (root) CMD (wget --spider -q http://mydomain.com/cronjobs/importxml.php)
Dec 12 13:56:01 msvsc02-g283nc crond[2504]: (root) RELOAD (cron/root)
Dec 12 13:56:01 msvsc02-g283nc crond[3226]: (root) CMD (wget --spider -q http://mydomain.com/cronjobs/importxml.php)
Dec 12 13:56:01 msvsc02-g283nc crond[2472]: (root) RELOAD (cron/root)
Dec 12 13:56:01 msvsc02-g283nc crond[3228]: (root) CMD (wget --spider -q http://mydomain.com/cronjobs/importxml.php)
Can anyone shed any light on this?
You may have more than one cron process running in that server. This normally wont happen. But anyway confirm it with
ps aux | grep cron
You can stop it by,
/etc/init.d/cron stop
or
service cron stop
or use 'kill PID' ( not recommended ).
And to start use start - instead of stop in either of above two commands.

How to get the start time of a long-running Linux process?

Is it possible to get the start time of an old running process? It seems that ps will report the date (not the time) if it wasn't started today, and only the year if it wasn't started this year. Is the precision lost forever for old processes?
You can specify a formatter and use lstart, like this command:
ps -eo pid,lstart,cmd
The above command will output all processes, with formatters to get PID, command run, and date+time started.
Example (from Debian/Jessie command line)
$ ps -eo pid,lstart,cmd
PID CMD STARTED
1 Tue Jun 7 01:29:38 2016 /sbin/init
2 Tue Jun 7 01:29:38 2016 [kthreadd]
3 Tue Jun 7 01:29:38 2016 [ksoftirqd/0]
5 Tue Jun 7 01:29:38 2016 [kworker/0:0H]
7 Tue Jun 7 01:29:38 2016 [rcu_sched]
8 Tue Jun 7 01:29:38 2016 [rcu_bh]
9 Tue Jun 7 01:29:38 2016 [migration/0]
10 Tue Jun 7 01:29:38 2016 [kdevtmpfs]
11 Tue Jun 7 01:29:38 2016 [netns]
277 Tue Jun 7 01:29:38 2016 [writeback]
279 Tue Jun 7 01:29:38 2016 [crypto]
...
You can read ps's manpage or check Opengroup's page for the other formatters.
The ps command (at least the procps version used by many Linux distributions) has a number of format fields that relate to the process start time, including lstart which always gives the full date and time the process started:
# ps -p 1 -wo pid,lstart,cmd
PID STARTED CMD
1 Mon Dec 23 00:31:43 2013 /sbin/init
# ps -p 1 -p $$ -wo user,pid,%cpu,%mem,vsz,rss,tty,stat,lstart,cmd
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED CMD
root 1 0.0 0.1 2800 1152 ? Ss Mon Dec 23 00:31:44 2013 /sbin/init
root 5151 0.3 0.1 4732 1980 pts/2 S Sat Mar 8 16:50:47 2014 bash
For a discussion of how the information is published in the /proc filesystem, see
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/7870/how-to-check-how-long-a-process-has-been-running
(In my experience under Linux, the time stamp on the /proc/ directories seem to be related to a moment when the virtual directory was recently accessed rather than the start time of the processes:
# date; ls -ld /proc/1 /proc/$$
Sat Mar 8 17:14:21 EST 2014
dr-xr-xr-x 7 root root 0 2014-03-08 16:50 /proc/1
dr-xr-xr-x 7 root root 0 2014-03-08 16:51 /proc/5151
Note that in this case I ran a "ps -p 1" command at about 16:50, then spawned a new bash shell, then ran the "ps -p 1 -p $$" command within that shell shortly afterward....)
As a follow-up to Adam Matan's answer, the /proc/<pid> directory's time stamp as such is not necessarily directly useful, but you can use
awk -v RS=')' 'END{print $20}' /proc/12345/stat
to get the start time in clock ticks since system boot.1
This is a slightly tricky unit to use; see also convert jiffies to seconds for details.
awk -v ticks="$(getconf CLK_TCK)" 'NR==1 { now=$1; next }
END { printf "%9.0f\n", now - ($20/ticks) }' /proc/uptime RS=')' /proc/12345/stat
This should give you seconds, which you can pass to strftime() to get a (human-readable, or otherwise) timestamp.
awk -v ticks="$(getconf CLK_TCK)" 'NR==1 { now=$1; next }
END { print strftime("%c", systime() - (now-($20/ticks))) }' /proc/uptime RS=')' /proc/12345/stat
Updated with some fixes from Stephane Chazelas in the comments; thanks as always!
If you only have Mawk, maybe try
awk -v ticks="$(getconf CLK_TCK)" -v epoch="$(date +%s)" '
NR==1 { now=$1; next }
END { printf "%9.0f\n", epoch - (now-($20/ticks)) }' /proc/uptime RS=')' /proc/12345/stat |
xargs -i date -d #{}
1 man proc; search for starttime.
ls -ltrh /proc | grep YOUR-PID-HERE
For example, my Google Chrome's PID is 11583:
ls -l /proc | grep 11583
dr-xr-xr-x 7 adam adam 0 2011-04-20 16:34 11583
$ ps -p 182454 -o lstart=
Mon Oct 18 17:26:44 2021
But can I get the answer in epoch seconds?
ps -eo pid,cmd,lstart | grep YOUR-PID-HERE
ps -eo pid,etime,cmd|sort -n -k2
use the command ls -ld /proc/process_id where process_id can be find using top command

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