Debian Bug report logs - #22969
anacron: anacron after 7:30

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andrea Arcangeli <arcangeli@mbox.queen.it>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: anacron: anacron after 7:30

Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 13:04:21 +0200

Package: anacron
Version: 2.0.1-2

I don' t think that /etc/init.d/anacron should depend on 7:30. For example
I start the cron daily etc... at 20:30 when very more probably the system is
up and idle.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.0 (frozen)
Kernel Version: Linux dragon 2.1.103 #6 Thu May 21 12:57:21 CEST 1998 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages anacron depends on:
ii  libc6           2.0.7pre3-1    The GNU C library version 2 (run-time files)
ii  sysklogd        1.3-25         Kernel and system logging daemons
ii  sendmail        8.8.8-16       A powerful mail transport agent.
smail	Not installed or no info
ii  sendmail        8.8.8-16       A powerful mail transport agent.
	^^^ (Provides virtual package mail-transport-agent)

Message #10 received at 22969@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>

To: Andrea Arcangeli <arcangeli@mbox.queen.it>, 22969@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#22969: anacron: anacron after 7:30

Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 11:11:11 +1000

On Fri, May 29, 1998 at 01:04:21PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Package: anacron
> Version: 2.0.1-2
> 
> I don' t think that /etc/init.d/anacron should depend on 7:30. For example
> I start the cron daily etc... at 20:30 when very more probably the system is
> up and idle.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but ...

anacron will run jobs after the system has been down for a while.
It only needs a regular crontab entry at all so that if your system is
up for more than one day, those jobs are run again. Hence it needs a regular
time to run.

ie your system does not need to be up at 07:30 -- that is the whole
point of anacron.


Hamish
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Message #15 received at 22969@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andrea Arcangeli <arcangeli@mbox.queen.it>

To: Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>

Cc: 22969@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#22969: anacron: anacron after 7:30

Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 03:26:01 +0200 (CEST)

On Sun, 31 May 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:

Normal cron scripts run at 7:30, so as you say:

>ie your system does not need to be up at 07:30 -- that is the whole
>point of anacron.

My cron scripts run starting from time 20:00 to time 20:30 so I' d like
that my system will run anacron even if the time is 7:20 (if I remeber
well this should be the interesting case, but it' s a bit late so I am
not so sure now...).

Anyway I removed the time test and all seems fine.

Andrea[s] Arcangeli

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