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> Only one job runs at a time At least on Debian, this is not true. If your hourly cronjobs take longer than an hour, it'll happily start a second instance of

> Only one job runs at a time At least on Debian, this is not true. If your hourly cronjobs take longer than an hour, it'll happily start a second instance of them in parallel.

ape4 3y ago
Good point, I can see that happening. I was talking about all the, say, hourly scripts running serially.
detistea 3y ago
It's true when using systemd-cron. It has built-in locking against duplicate execution.