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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Bug in run-crons?
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 16:33:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0fa56046dbf46a92723f588f2b458deb53771c5c.camel@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Ybe4yYan1Oe4YxMx@kern>

On Mon, 2021-12-13 at 22:19 +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> 
> For the record: The checks in run-crons that I referred to earlier are
> actually more for those cases in which the machine was powered off for a
> while in order to restore cron completeness as early as possible after boot.
> 

The run-crons quackery has been causing problems since 2004:

  https://bugs.gentoo.org/69777

One-liners with run-parts (NOT run-crons) are a lot more predictable.




  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-13 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-12 18:21 [gentoo-user] Bug in run-crons? Frank Steinmetzger
2021-12-12 18:41 ` Rich Freeman
2021-12-12 19:07   ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-12-13 20:18     ` Rich Freeman
2021-12-13 21:19       ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-12-13 21:33         ` Michael Orlitzky [this message]
2021-12-13 21:38           ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-12-13 21:42             ` Michael Orlitzky
2021-12-13 21:54               ` Rich Freeman
2021-12-13 22:03                 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-12-13 22:26                   ` Wols Lists

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