On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 02:42:23AM -0000, Daniel Richard G. wrote: > If anacron sending out e-mail under such circumstances is a desired > behavior, could you at least make the message more intelligible, with a > mention of the likelihood that a previously-started cron job has hung?
> Even nicer would be some shell magic that greps the process table for > children of the existing anacron process, so that the message can > actually name what specific job is at fault---and users can file bugs > against the appropriate package(s) instead of coming here. I wouldn't block someone from making such a change, but again, this is fixing secondary symptoms instead of the real bug. anacron should not block indefinitely and fail to run again due to misbehaving cron jobs; and the misbehaving cronjob that we know about should be fixed so that it doesn't misbehave. Making the error mails clearer is, to put it bluntly, polishing a turd. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/606491 Title: start: Job is already running: anacron To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/anacron/+bug/606491/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
