Re: To Joerg Morbitzer 2015-05-03 <20150503125807.ga3...@msg.df7cb.de> > > I guess this is an important bug that should be solved in Debian 8.1 > > due soon. > > The behavior was different for decades, and this change isn't > mentioned in NEWS.Debian to make the user aware. I guess everyone who > has been managing cron as a sysadmin will get bitten badly by this > change. > > I'd strongly opt to change the KillMode as mentioned above. > #debian-devel seems to agree, so I'm upgrading this bug to RC. > (critical as it's killing "random" processes)
A particular reason why the current behavior is bad is that it is common practise to start user daemons using @reboot cronjobs. These are long-running and shouldn't get terminated. (There are alternatives available to start user processes at boot, but the predominant way atm is still @reboot.) Christoph -- c...@df7cb.de | http://www.df7cb.de/
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