July 7, 2021

This started earlier today and I solved it only just now. It took me a while to find out it was duplicate cron jobs, and even longer to find out why. It started with lockf notifications (if you’ve never heard of lockf before, please read this Twitter thread for examples). In short, one of those emails said: lockf: /var/run/periodic.hourly.lock: already locked I looked to see if there were any long-running jobs which might […]