Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 03 May 2008 18:43:54 +0200 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > A wait & retry mechanism could be implemented, but... will it delay the >> > remaining cron daily jobs, as well? >> >> Yes it would. At least when run serialy. >> >> So maybe an at job would be better. If the file is locked run the >> script aagin in now+10m with --retry <N>. If N exceeds 6 fail. >> Something like that. > > This is interesting. > It would mean that apt should Recommends: at and that the script should > test -x /usr/bin/at before attempting to adopt such retry strategy. > However it could be done, I think.
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