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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: periodic tasks execute twice -- why?
Date: 20 Feb 2014 16:36:02 GMT
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On 2014-02-20, Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> In article <5305a108$0$10797$c3e8da3$1cbc7475@news.astraweb.com>,
>  JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
>
>> On 14-02-19 13:34, BakersT wrote:
>> > On my two Macs running Tiger (10.4.11), running the periodic log 
>> > rotation scripts results in the script executing twice in rapid 
>> > succession: for example, doing "sudo periodic daily" causes /etc/daily 
>> 
>> man periodic
>> 
>> and then look at /etc/periodic.conf to see if there is any duplication.
>> 
>> You might wish to look in the daily, weekly etc directories for
>> duplication of files
>
> He mentioned an /etc/daily script, not /etc/periodic.daily directory. It 
> sounds like the organization was different in Tiger.
>
> It's possible he's running into a bug that was fixed in a later release.

Yep. There's even an Apple discussion thread about it:

<https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1339873?start=15&tstart=0>

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