cron not updating -> errors
Hi!
I suppose this is the usual behaviour of cron (running 3.0pl1-57 now), but
it has shocked me.
The thing is that if I remove a package that has a /etc/cron.d entry when
there is less than one minute left for the run of the programs of this
package, cron tries to execute them even though dpkg had removed the
/etc/cron.d entry several seconds before. This leads to a typical file not
found mail going to the administrator.
In my case the package was some scripts and one of them is run each minute,
so 100% of the times you do a dpkg -r of this package you get the mail. So
far the only solution that I have came up with for this was a post remove
script to stop and then start again cron, but this doesn't seem at all a
clean solution.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
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