> Sam Morris <s...@robots.org.uk>
> But more annoyingly, restarting cron results in atop being killed!
This was another bug, that even got fixed in stable:
cron (3.0pl1-127+deb8u1) jessie; urgency=medium
.
* d/cron.service: Use KillMode=process to kill only the daemon.
The default of KillMode=control-group kills all the processes in the
control
group, for example when restarting the daemon. This is a deviation from
past
behavior we do not want. Closes: #783683
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Every little thing started from cron will end up in cron.service's cgroup.
To avoid that you'd need:
- a proper atop.timer that calls a new atop.service
- some logic in the crontab to make it a no-op if systemd is installed & running
# start atop daily at midnight
-0 0 * * * root invoke-rc.d atop _cron
+0 0 * * * root test -e /run/systemd || invoke-rc.d atop _cron
