Bug 26392

Summary:	anacron should update its time-stamps via regular cron
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Nicolas Bock <nbock>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Cron Team <cron-bugs+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	blaisorblade_spam
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	79842
Attachments:	crontab that executes in cron.daily to execute in cron.weekly to execute in cron.monthly

Description Nicolas Bock 2003-08-11 04:46:34 UTC

It would be nice if anacron would update its time-stamps via the regular cron
command. Currently anacron is executed after an uptime of more than a day since
its time-stamps indicate that it hasn't run for more than a day, i.e. missed the
last cron.daily. I included attachments for cron.daily, cron.weekly, and
cron.monthly that will do the job.

Comment 1 Nicolas Bock 2003-08-11 04:48:45 UTC

Created attachment 15896 [details]
crontab that executes in cron.daily

Comment 2 Nicolas Bock 2003-08-11 04:49:29 UTC

Created attachment 15897 [details]
to execute in cron.weekly

Comment 3 Nicolas Bock 2003-08-11 04:50:30 UTC

Created attachment 15898 [details]
to execute in cron.monthly

Comment 4 Nicolas Bock 2003-08-17 13:52:40 UTC

I forgot to mention that the scripts should be named such that they get executed _first_ in a particular /etc/cron.*/. We don't want to run the same scripts with cron and anacron.... A script name of "0-anacron" for example should do the trick.

Comment 5 BlaisorBlade 2005-07-21 19:29:23 UTC

The miss of those scripts is causing, on my system, anacron and crond to execute
the same tasks, which then finish together, causing race conditions and
failures... for instance, there are two concurrent updatedb, with at least one
of them failing.

Comment 6 BlaisorBlade 2005-11-01 08:17:12 UTC

As said in my previous comment, this is causing breakage... so it must not be 
marked as an "enhancement". I'm not allowed by Bugzilla to remark it, however 
please do it - and btw fix the bug, it's trivial.

Also, the fact that nobody has yet fixed this bug is bad.

Comment 7 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-01-08 17:28:10 UTC

(In reply to comment #6)
> As said in my previous comment, this is causing breakage...

BlaisorBlade: Could you be more specific, please. What's your setup (crontab/anacron)?

Comment 8 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-02-13 00:25:11 UTC

Dead bug.