90259 – vixie-cron should not 'need clock'

Bug 90259 - vixie-cron should not 'need clock'

Summary: vixie-cron should not 'need clock'

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Cron Team

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Reported:	2005-04-24 10:23 UTC by Benno Schulenberg
Modified:	2005-06-08 18:35 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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simple patch (vixie-cron.rc6.diff,360 bytes, patch) 2005-06-04 03:17 UTC, Jakub Moc (RETIRED)	Details \| Diff
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Description Benno Schulenberg 2005-04-24 10:23:30 UTC

In /etc/init.d/vixie-cron it says 'need clock'.  But stopping the clock service does not unset the system clock, so this action shouldn't stop the cron daemon.   And in order to start cron, a fully accurate time isn't really needed.  So it would be better that vixie-cron 'use clock'.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-06-04 03:17:15 UTC

Created attachment 60567 [details, diff]
simple patch

Please, fix this bug - patch attached. Thanks.

Comment 2 Aaron Walker (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-06-08 18:35:29 UTC

Fixed.  Going to wait on doing a revbump, however.