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. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/606491 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@hostname> To: root@hostname Subject: Cron <root@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... To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/anacron/+bug/606491/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
