On Monday, December 3, 2018 at 1:30:07 PM UTC+5:30, Kamil Jońca wrote: > I have in my /etc/cron.daily some local scripts. > Some of them can be occassionally time-consuming. > Recently I found that some of them did not end. > And what I found: > 1. as "everybody" knows, in case of anacron presence, system cron jobs > are delegated to anacron. > 2. recently in Debian we have anacron.timer which also runs "cron.daily" > entry. > 3. there is a timeout in systemd services which cause to kill my jobs :( > > So my question is: is it safe to remove/disable anacron timer?
Best bet is switch to using systemd timers https://medium.com/horrible-hacks/using-systemd-as-a-better-cron-a4023eea996d https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/84858/systemd-timer-units-that-mimic-anacron-behaviour
