On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 08:52:34PM +0200, Alexandre Detiste wrote: > Package: popularity-contest > Version: =1.64 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > Hi, > > Could you please add a "PERSISTENT=true" environment > variable to the new generated crontabs ? > > When the cron-daemon is provided by 'systemd-cron' alternative > implementation, this got translated to "Persistent=true" > in the generated systemd timer. > > That gives this crontab anacron-like powers: > if the timer elaspsed while the system was down, > the job is executed after next boot.
Hello Alexandre, /etc/cron.d/popularity-contest is not handled by anacron (as you note), it is /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest which is. So it would be more consistent to add 'anacron-like power' to /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest than to /etc/cron.d/popularity-contest, otherwise the same job will be run twice at boot. > By the way, the "Suggests: anacron" is not applicable anymore, > as anacron doesn't process the jobs in /etc/cron.d . Of course it is still applicable, /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest is still here. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
