Package: apt Version: 0.7.12 Severity: normal In the last few days I was wondering whether my system was broken. Saw messages like that in xconsole:
,---- | May 3 06:40:19 debian anacron[2600]: Job `cron.daily' started | May 3 06:40:19 debian anacron[2745]: Updated timestamp for job `cron.daily' to 2008-05-03 `---- and then nothing happened for quite some time. You probably can figure out more easily than me why that is the case, it would be nice if your cron.daily script could check whether it should do anything *before* sleeping up to 30 minutes and holding up everyone else. Don't know if cron runs the scripts in parallel to avoid the problem, but anacron is a bit dump: ,---- | May 3 06:35:19 debian anacron[2600]: Will run job `cron.daily' in 5 min. | May 3 06:35:19 debian anacron[2600]: Jobs will be executed sequentially `---- -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24.6 Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages apt depends on: ii debian-archive-keyring 2008.04.16+nmu1 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.3.0-4 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.3.0-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 apt recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]