How to ensure Single Cron Job Instance with flock in Red Hat Environments
Issue
- Is it possible to run only one instance of cronjob at time
- Multiple instances of cronjob is seen in process list and it is only supposed to spawn one instance at a time.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- cronie
flockutility
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