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** Changed in: cron (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/756574
Title:
cron forgets to run user jobs
Status in cron package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
Binary package hint: cron
On Lucid, users' cron jobs will just suddenly stop executing. A user
can simply resubmit their crontab (i.e. crontab -e, make a trivial
change, then save) and cron will start executing it again.
Witness:
# (grep CRON /var/log/syslog; zgrep CRON /var/log/syslog.*.gz) | grep
" (brian) CMD"
/var/log/syslog.7.gz:Apr 3 07:03:01 linux CRON[13584]: (brian) CMD
(fetchmail ...)
/var/log/syslog.7.gz:Apr 3 07:15:01 linux CRON[13709]: (brian) CMD (bin/...)
/var/log/syslog.7.gz:Apr 3 07:43:01 linux CRON[14068]: (brian) CMD (bin/...)
/var/log/syslog.7.gz:Apr 3 08:03:01 linux CRON[16662]: (brian) CMD
(fetchmail ...)
/var/log/syslog.7.gz:Apr 3 08:15:01 linux CRON[17334]: (brian) CMD (bin/...)
/var/log/syslog.7.gz:Apr 3 09:03:02 linux CRON[19086]: (brian) CMD
(fetchmail ...)
/var/log/syslog.7.gz:Apr 3 09:15:01 linux CRON[19442]: (brian) CMD (bin/...)
/var/log/syslog.7.gz:Apr 3 10:03:01 linux CRON[25487]: (brian) CMD
(fetchmail ...)
/var/log/syslog.7.gz:Apr 3 10:15:01 linux CRON[25782]: (brian) CMD (bin/...)
As you can see, there are jobs which are supposed to run every hour
but the last time they were run was a week ago.
And now have the user make a trivial change like just changing the
time that fetchmail job runs from 3 minutes after every hour to 4
minutes and like magic, it starts executing again:
Apr 10 10:04:01 linux CRON[4814]: (brian) CMD (fetchmail ...)
Note that this only affects non-root user crontabs. root crontabs
continue to run, or I would have noticed this more immediately. :-)
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: cron 3.0pl1-106ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Apr 10 09:54:47 2011
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: cron
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