[Bug 606491] Re: start: Job is already running: anacron

[Johannes Martin]

Daniel: I'm perfectly happy with the situation as it is now. I got an
email notifying me about a problem which eventually pointed me to the
cause of the problem. If we changed anything in the way start or anacron
respond by default to duplicate instances of processes, we may break
other things and make things worse.

As to my proposed solution alternatives: I don't really see the sense of
creating separate bug reports for those. They should be discussed to see
which one makes the most sense in the context of this bug report. Once
the discussion is complete, then we might create a feature request.

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Title:
  start: Job is already running: anacron

Status in “anacron” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: anacron

  Every day cron sends me this email:

    Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 07:30:01 +1200
    From: Cron Daemon <root at hostname>
    To: root at hostname
    Subject: Cron <root at hostname> start -q anacron || :

    start: Job is already running: anacron

  I've tried to find out why it was running twice, but I could only find
  one copy of anacron in the cron directories...

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