[Bug 606491] Re: start: Job is already running: anacron

[Daniel Richard G.]

The following change should address this bug:

--- /etc/cron.d/anacron.orig	2010-06-20 04:11:29.000000000 -0400
+++ /etc/cron.d/anacron	2012-01-06 18:03:48.000000000 -0500
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
 
 #30 7    * * *   root	test -x /etc/init.d/anacron && /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d anacron start >/dev/null
-30 7    * * *   root	start -q anacron || :
+30 7    * * *   root	start --quiet anacron 2>/dev/null || :


The cron-job command is written to disregard failure of the start(8) command, but it was not absorbing the error message that would be produced in such an instance.

(I also changed -q to --quiet, as the former is not documented in the
initctl(8) man page.)

Of course, this does nothing for the apt bug that appears to be
associated with this one.

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Title:
  start: Job is already running: anacron

Status in “anacron” 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 at hostname>
    To: root at hostname
    Subject: Cron <root at 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...

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