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

[latimerio]

I don't see why there is so much discussion about a workaround.
In my view if there is a flag -q or --quiet there should be no need to redirect output to /dev/null but anacron should really be quiet. Point!
So I think it is a bug if anacron -q exhibits a message about not starting a second instance, which even is not really an error but more a warning.
And if a --quiet option makes any sense at all it should be quiet about warnings.

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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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