Cron suddenly calls a script every 15 minutes

vincent Published at Dev

Vincent

On a Debian server, I have a crontab entry that should call a script every day at 04:21 AM.

That's what it did, until today .. but now the script is called every 15 minutes without any reason !

I have not changed the crontab in months !

Here's the crontab line :

21 4 * * * /usr/bin/wget -O /dev/null http://www.domain.tld/tasks/hebdomadaire.php &> /dev/null

And here's the Apache log ( cat access.log | grep "hebdomadaire" ) :

SERVER_IP - - [28/Mar/2016:04:21:01 +0000] "GET /tasks/hebdomadaire.php HTTP/1.1" 200 454 "-" "Wget/1.13.4 (linux-gnu)"
SERVER_IP - - [29/Mar/2016:04:21:01 +0000] "GET /tasks/hebdomadaire.php HTTP/1.1" 200 454 "-" "Wget/1.13.4 (linux-gnu)"
SERVER_IP - - [30/Mar/2016:04:21:01 +0000] "GET /tasks/hebdomadaire.php HTTP/1.1" 200 454 "-" "Wget/1.13.4 (linux-gnu)"
SERVER_IP - - [31/Mar/2016:04:21:01 +0000] "GET /tasks/hebdomadaire.php HTTP/1.1" 200 454 "-" "Wget/1.13.4 (linux-gnu)"
SERVER_IP - - [31/Mar/2016:04:36:02 +0000] "GET /tasks/hebdomadaire.php HTTP/1.1" 200 454 "-" "Wget/1.13.4 (linux-gnu)"
SERVER_IP - - [31/Mar/2016:04:51:04 +0000] "GET /tasks/hebdomadaire.php HTTP/1.1" 200 454 "-" "Wget/1.13.4 (linux-gnu)"
SERVER_IP - - [31/Mar/2016:05:06:07 +0000] "GET /tasks/hebdomadaire.php HTTP/1.1" 200 454 "-" "Wget/1.13.4 (linux-gnu)"
SERVER_IP - - [31/Mar/2016:05:21:11 +0000] "GET /tasks/hebdomadaire.php HTTP/1.1" 200 454 "-" "Wget/1.13.4 (linux-gnu)"
SERVER_IP - - [31/Mar/2016:05:36:16 +0000] "GET /tasks/hebdomadaire.php HTTP/1.1" 200 454 "-" "Wget/1.13.4 (linux-gnu)"
SERVER_IP - - [31/Mar/2016:05:51:22 +0000] "GET /tasks/hebdomadaire.php HTTP/1.1" 200 454 "-" "Wget/1.13.4 (linux-gnu)"
SERVER_IP - - [31/Mar/2016:06:06:30 +0000] "GET /tasks/hebdomadaire.php HTTP/1.1" 200 454 "-" "Wget/1.13.4 (linux-gnu)"
SERVER_IP - - [31/Mar/2016:06:21:38 +0000] "GET /tasks/hebdomadaire.php HTTP/1.1" 200 454 "-" "Wget/1.13.4 (linux-gnu)"
SERVER_IP - - [31/Mar/2016:06:36:47 +0000] "GET /tasks/hebdomadaire.php HTTP/1.1" 200 454 "-" "Wget/1.13.4 (linux-gnu)"
SERVER_IP - - [31/Mar/2016:06:51:57 +0000] "GET /tasks/hebdomadaire.php HTTP/1.1" 200 454 "-" "Wget/1.13.4 (linux-gnu)"
SERVER_IP - - [31/Mar/2016:07:07:07 +0000] "GET /tasks/hebdomadaire.php HTTP/1.1" 200 454 "-" "Wget/1.13.4 (linux-gnu)"

How can that be?

Vincent

The default behaviour of wget (documented in the manual) is to restart after a default timeout of 900s (aka 15 min).

Adding --timeout=0 solves the problem here.

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