# Bug - hourly cron job intervals make hourly cron fail (planned for r60)
**URL:** https://discussions.eramba.org/t/bug-hourly-cron-job-intervals-make-hourly-cron-fail-planned-for-r60/697
**Category:** Forum - Software
**Created:** [May 28, 2018, 2:09pm UTC](https://discussions.eramba.org/t/bug-hourly-cron-job-intervals-make-hourly-cron-fail-planned-for-r60/697 "2018-05-28T14:09:20Z")
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### Author:  [@Fabian](https://discussions.eramba.org/u/Fabian)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2018, 2:09pm UTC](https://discussions.eramba.org/t/bug-hourly-cron-job-intervals-make-hourly-cron-fail-planned-for-r60/697/1 "2018-05-28T14:09:20Z")
Hi
I have just noticed that the hourly cron is not executed regularly: As soon as it’s executed with a delay the job of the next period (hour / day) fails. Could you add some timing buffer, so that it only checks the last 50 minutes for example?
Regards
Fabian
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### Author:  [@eramba](https://discussions.eramba.org/u/eramba)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2018, 2:46pm UTC](https://discussions.eramba.org/t/bug-hourly-cron-job-intervals-make-hourly-cron-fail-planned-for-r60/697/2 "2018-05-28T14:46:17Z")
> [@Fabian](#):
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> As soon as it’s executed with a delay the job of the next period (hour / day) fails
Yes , we are aware of this and so far this has not been a mayor issue (well, is annoying of course) as that cron only handled email flushing but now it does other things (dashboards, account reviews, etc) and so it is becoming a problem.
The solution is not changing the config on the linux box but instead checking if the previous job finished or not (it does some locking so we know that).
I would call this a bug rather than a question…internal reference: [https://github.com/eramba/eramba\_v2/issues/1305](https://github.com/eramba/eramba_v2/issues/1305)
I’ll chat with our devs tomorrow and let you know
Thanks Fabian
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### Author:  [@eramba](https://discussions.eramba.org/u/eramba)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2018, 1:30pm UTC](https://discussions.eramba.org/t/bug-hourly-cron-job-intervals-make-hourly-cron-fail-planned-for-r60/697/3 "2018-05-29T13:30:54Z")
We just fixed this, it will let up to 10 minutes of hourly cron (which is far more than it should run), we’ll package this tomorrow and make a release.
Thanks Fabian!
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### Author:  [@Fabian](https://discussions.eramba.org/u/Fabian)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2018, 1:42pm UTC](https://discussions.eramba.org/t/bug-hourly-cron-job-intervals-make-hourly-cron-fail-planned-for-r60/697/4 "2018-05-29T13:42:18Z")
I admit it’s a rather small point. But thanks for responding this fast!
Fabian