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

[Daniel Richard G.]

Steve,

If anacron sending out e-mail under such circumstances is a desired
behavior, could you at least make the message more intelligible, with a
mention of the likelihood that a previously-started cron job has hung?

Even nicer would be some shell magic that greps the process table for
children of the existing anacron process, so that the message can
actually name what specific job is at fault---and users can file bugs
against the appropriate package(s) instead of coming here.

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Title:
  start: Job is already running: anacron

Status in “anacron” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  New

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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