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

[Daniel Richard G.]

Hi Stuart,

Note that Anacron is not a daemon; it needs to be executed at boot time
and intermittently thereafter (via that cron.d script).

It doesn't work to have Anacron run only at boot time and Cron
thereafter, because Anacron maintains state in /var/spool/anacron/ that
needs to be updated each time it runs. If you look at /etc/crontab,
you'll see that Cron does relatively little when Anacron is installed.

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Title:
  start: Job is already running: anacron

Status in anacron package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in apt 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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