I have in my /etc/cron.daily some local scripts. Some of them can be occassionally time-consuming. Recently I found that some of them did not end. And what I found: 1. as "everybody" knows, in case of anacron presence, system cron jobs are delegated to anacron. 2. recently in Debian we have anacron.timer which also runs "cron.daily" entry. 3. there is a timeout in systemd services which cause to kill my jobs :(
So my question is: is it safe to remove/disable anacron timer? Here is some journal excerpt: Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: State 'stop-sigterm' timed out. Killing. Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: Killing process 8919 (anacron) with signal SIGKILL. Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: Killing process 9249 (sh) with signal SIGKILL. Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: Killing process 9250 (run-parts) with signal SIGKILL. Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: Killing process 9409 (local) with signal SIGKILL. Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: Killing process 14049 (sudo) with signal SIGKILL. Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: Killing process 14050 (dumpnews) with signal SIGKILL. Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: Killing process 14067 (sort) with signal SIGKILL. Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: Killing process 14068 (tar) with signal SIGKILL. Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: Killing process 14069 (xz) with signal SIGKILL. Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=9/KILL Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: Killing process 9249 (sh) with signal SIGKILL. Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: Killing process 9250 (run-parts) with signal SIGKILL. Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: Killing process 14049 (sudo) with signal SIGKILL. Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: Killing process 14050 (dumpnews) with signal SIGKILL. Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: Killing process 14067 (sort) with signal SIGKILL. Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: Killing process 14068 (tar) with signal SIGKILL. Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: Killing process 14069 (xz) with signal SIGKILL. Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: Failed with result 'timeout'. KJ -- http://stopstopnop.pl/stop_stopnop.pl_o_nas.html A rolling disk gathers no MOS.
