Package: fcron Version: 3.0.0-2 Severity: important -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
I use fcron to run daily backups with rsync. I have several jobs that backup different directories. On each of them I have set: serial(true) - From reading 'man 5 fcrontab', I understand that no job with the 'serial(true)' setting can run at the same time as another job with 'serial(true)' set. Is this not correct? If that is correct, then fcron seems to have a bug. The rsync jobs tend to cause a lot of disk activity, so just a few minutes ago, when I noticed CPU usage and disk activity spike, I ran top and saw that there were two rsync jobs running. I just verified that there are no other rsync jobs in any crontabs or fcrontabs on the system. All of the rsync jobs are in the root fcrontab, and all of them have 'serial(true)' set. Yet they are running in parallel, and this isn't the first time I've noticed it. Please let me know if I can help debug this. - -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-2-k7 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages fcron depends on: ii adduser 3.80 Add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.66 Debian configuration management sy ii dpkg 1.13.11.0.1 package maintenance system for Deb ii exim4 4.60-1 metapackage to ease exim MTA (v4) ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-tra 4.60-1 lightweight exim MTA (v4) daemon ii libc6 2.3.5-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libpam0g 0.79-3 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libselinux1 1.26-1 SELinux shared libraries Versions of packages fcron recommends: ii sysklogd [system-log-daemon] 1.4.1-17 System Logging Daemon - -- debconf information: * fcron/anacronwarn: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDwzAD5+GdyTDsrJsRAutSAJ497m41GLkgPKR4d+tGRvax0IygbQCfTSq1 agJ/m1X2mA+d6oMUmWnjszE= =NSyw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
