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by Daniel Berger.
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I was seeing some odd behavior from one of my automated reports. The log file would show a failure, then show that the job had finished successfully. Checking the archive it seemed everything had worked properly. All files that were supposed to be generated were, in fact, generated and placed where they were supposed to be placed.
So, why was the log showing an error? Turns out I had duplicate entries for the same job in the crontab. One job would start, then the second one. The second one would fail, log the error, and die while the first would go on its happy way and complete successfully.
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