On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 09:49:38PM -0600, Nathan Schulte wrote: > Currently, Anacron is setup to run once daily. While this configuration works > fine, it ends up only supporting longer-duration power-cycles; that is, cycles > greater than a day. This is probably good for some server configurations, but > this is not good for desktop and mobile (laptop) systems that are powered off > daily or even more periodically. > > In these cases, running Anacron hourly allows the daily scripts to be serviced > by Anacron as a user expects. I believe this will resolve these two bug > reports: > > 1) #619648 cron.daily doesn't execute scheduled scripts > 2) #672061 [anacron] Daily cronjobs in crontabs of users aren't ran by > anacron.
This change will change the time the daily, weekly and monthly cron jobs run to "first anacron time after midnight", which is way too early in the day. I surely am not the only person who is frequently still working at midnight, and having cron.daily run while I'm actively working is something I don't want to have. If this is implemented[1], care should be taken that the "old" cron blocks are not affected by the change. Greetings Marc [1] incidentally, an hourly anacron run is in unstable's anacron since early June 2017, and the package got accepted for the stretch release a week later, so we actually have this behavior in a stable release, which makes me Not Amused. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421
