Freek, et al -- ...and then Freek de Kruijf said... % % Op maandag 27 juni 2022 12:32:03 CEST schreef David T-G: % > ... % > uptime? Carlos usually has great ideas here :-) You might try adding % > some debug info into the script to give you a picture of the world each % > time cron kicks it off. What if you run the command manually oh, say, % > 1000 times with no waiting? % > % Tried it 1000 times, without waiting and a sleep 1. Both reported one issue, % respectively on count 450 and 179. [snip] Oho! At least you can rule out cron, which makes things one step simpler. Yay. Time to turn this back over to the experts. I'm just an out-of-work admin who fumbles around OK :-) But a big branch of the decision tree has just been pruned away, so I can feel like I helped. :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt