Steve, Anacron sending out a cryptic e-mail due to a hung cron job is a primary bug in and of itself. Either don't send out an e-mail at all, or send an e-mail that doesn't confuse people while leaving them no avenue for follow-up. You have enough deep knowledge of the system to intuit the underlying problem from that message. Most users don't---and to put it bluntly, you're not Ubuntu's target audience.
I agree that the cron job should be fixed so that it doesn't misbehave. But since that's not going to happen overnight, and hung cron jobs are a thing, and anacron is part of a default Ubuntu install, and Ubuntu purports to be user-friendly, we need a fix here as well. -- 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
