[Cialug] Cron

[Jim Cole]

http://askubuntu.com/questions/143666/in-what-order-do-cron-jobs-with-the-same-schedule-run

That makes it sound like its top down for Debian, Ubuntu but can vary per
distro with freebsd being bottom up.
On Mar 24, 2016 10:44 PM, "Sean Flattery" <sean.r.flattery at gmail.com> wrote:

> Perhaps I'm reading the output of ls wrong, but it seems like files were
> written in reverse order.
>
> 16:40:06.350406655 -0500 /tmp/first.txt
> 16:40:06.340406654 -0500 /tmp/third.txt
> 16:40:06.335406654 -0500 /tmp/second.txt
> 16:40:06.327406653 -0500 /tmp/fourth.txt
> 16:40:06.304406652 -0500 /tmp/fifth.txt
>
> Running "ls -lt --full-time /tmp/*.txt | sort -k7" should sort it properly.
>
>
>
>
> > Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 17:09:44 -0500
> > From: David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com>
> > To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Cialug] Cron
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> >
> > Also illustrates that you can't count on the order things will execute in
> > this manner, since second.txt and third.txt are out of order. But, close
> > enough.
> >
> > -dc
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 4:46 PM, kristau <kristau at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Interesting results:
> > >
> > > 40 16 * * *     echo "FIRST" > /tmp/first.txt
> > > 40 16 * * *     echo "SECOND" > /tmp/second.txt
> > > 40 16 * * *     echo "THIRD" > /tmp/third.txt
> > > 40 16 * * *     echo "FOURTH" > /tmp/fourth.txt
> > > 40 16 * * *     echo "FIFTH" > /tmp/fifth.txt
> > >
> > > ls -lt --full-time /tmp/*.txt
> > > -rw-r--r--. 1 kristau kristau 6 2016-03-23 16:40:06.350406655 -0500
> > > /tmp/first.txt
> > > -rw-r--r--. 1 kristau kristau 6 2016-03-23 16:40:06.340406654 -0500
> > > /tmp/third.txt
> > > -rw-r--r--. 1 kristau kristau 7 2016-03-23 16:40:06.335406654 -0500
> > > /tmp/second.txt
> > > -rw-r--r--. 1 kristau kristau 7 2016-03-23 16:40:06.327406653 -0500
> > > /tmp/fourth.txt
> > > -rw-r--r--. 1 kristau kristau 6 2016-03-23 16:40:06.304406652 -0500
> > > /tmp/fifth.txt
> > >
> > >
> > > I'd say, "Simultaneous enough?"
> > >
> >
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