Re: cron jobs running early in virtual machine

it says its for 32bit boxes, so odd on hes 64 bit so most likely not.

Run a date on the host just before you run the date in the jail and compare
if you havent already


On 11 June 2014 11:53, Ronald Klop <[e-mail]> wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 11:31:02 +0200, Spil Oss <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>>
>> I have a FreeBSD 10 running in VMWare ESXi 5.5. ntp is properly
>> configured and the time on the server is fine.
>>
>> What I've found is that cron jobs start early. I call newsyslog -v in
>> jails from the system crontab
>> in /etc/crontab
>> 0       0       *       *       *       root    jx all newsyslog -v
>>
>> jx is a simple wrapper to call that program in a named jail or 'all'
>> jails from jls
>> results in
>> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 23:59:08 +0200
>> Subject: Cron <root@gw> jx all newsyslog -v
>> X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
>> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin>
>> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
>> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
>> X-Cron-Env: <USER=root>
>>
>> Jail: build
>> Processing /etc/newsyslog.conf
>> /var/log/daily.log <7>: --> will trim at Wed Jun 11 00:00:00 2014
>>
>> So this will never cycle daily.log
>>
>> What can cause cron to start all jobs early? I tested this with a
>> simple `date' in cron as well and that's early too
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Spil
>>
>
> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=261231
>
> This was committed to stable/10 after 10.0-RELEASE. Maybe it has something
> to do with it.
>
> NB: I'm am not the author of the patch so I might be totally wrong.
>
> Ronald.
>
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