Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 27 November 2005 15:43, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The Sunday 2005-11-27 at 13:53 +0100, I wrote:
> > I have just now edited /usr/lib/cron/run-crons:
> >
> >           #cron.daily)   TIME="-ctime +1  -or -ctime 1"  ;;
> >           #cron.weekly)  TIME="-ctime +7  -or -ctime 7"  ;;
> >           #bug
> >           cron.daily)   TIME="-cmin +1400  -or -cmin -1400"  ;;
> >           cron.weekly)  TIME="-cmin +10080 -or -cmin -10080"  ;;
> >
> > and I'll see if that fixes the 15' delay.
>
> [...]
>
> Well, it is not correct. It ran within 15 minutes of editing
> /usr/lib/cron/run-crons, even if the flag file was stamped "Nov 27 01:15
> cron.daily":
>
> Nov 27 01:15:02 nimrodel run-crons[15358]: Starting cron daily run
> Nov 27 14:00:01 nimrodel run-crons[20757]: Starting cron daily run
>
>
> I'll touch the flag file and see what happens:
>
> nimrodel:~ # touch --date="today 01:15:00"

Note that touch doesn't set the ctime, just the mtime, so this won't have any 
effect.

> /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily
> nimrodel:~ # l /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Nov 27 01:15 /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily
>
> [...]
>
> No! It is running again at 14:30. I think I will undo the changes to the
> script, it is wrong: it is running every fifteen minutes:
>
> Nov 27 01:15:02 nimrodel run-crons[15358]: Starting cron daily run
> Nov 27 14:00:01 nimrodel run-crons[20757]: Starting cron daily run
> Nov 27 14:15:01 nimrodel run-crons[21710]: Starting cron daily run
> Nov 27 14:30:02 nimrodel run-crons[22550]: Starting cron daily run

This looks strange. Did you remove the section of run-crons which deletes the 
spool file?

Or did you put the line that outputs this message in the wrong place, so it 
gets printed every time run-crons runs instead of when cron.daily runs?