/etc/cron.daily/apt hangs [solved]

[Rashkae]

Markus Schönhaber wrote:
> 
> <nitpick_mode>
> Strictly speaking, the cron jobs don't wait for each other, but rather there's 
> only one cron job involved - the one which starts run-parts. Which, in turn, 
> runs the scripts in the cron.daily directory, and does so one after the other.
> </nitpick_mode>
> 
> Regards
>   mks
> 
> 

Details aside, I think we can reasonably agree that a random sleep
holding up the daily cron job is not really expected behaviour and this
can be tuned a little somehow,, (ex, put apt in it's own crantab file
instead of using cron.daily)