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

[Stuart Rackham]

The default /etc/anacrontab only executes cron jobs, doesn't this make
/etc/cron.d/anacron unnecessary?

Boot time execution of anacron  (/etc/init.d/anacron) takes care of jobs
missed while the PC was off and cron takes care of things while the PC
is on.

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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 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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