Package: anacron
Version: 2.3-19
Followup-For: Bug #688665
Dear Maintainer,
I can confirm that this bug still exists.
After anacron runs the 1st time, usually at boot, systemd registers its state
as "active (exited)". Thus when the command "/usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d anacron
start" in file /etc/cron.d/anacron is executed and systemd intervenes, systemd
interprets it as already active and does not execute the command (or it's
systemd equivalent to "start" the service)
The workaround I have currently employed is to make the following change to the
/etc/cron.d/anacron script:
CHANGE: 'test -x /etc/init.d/anacron && /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d anacron start
>/dev/null'
TO: 'test -x /usr/sbin/anacron && anacron -s'
in the cronjob definition (without the single quotation marks)
I'm not entirely sure why the original posters solution would work because when
you look at the /etc/init.d/anacron file there are no commands / actions in the
"restart" stanza of the case statement (it is possible that I am not reading
the bash script properly).
regards
Os
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.7-trunk+illuminati-ox-amd64-lenovot400 (SMP w/2 CPU cores;
PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages anacron depends on:
ii debianutils 4.3.2
ii libc6 2.13-37
ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian8
Versions of packages anacron recommends:
ii cron 3.0pl1-124
ii rsyslog [system-log-daemon] 5.8.11-2
Versions of packages anacron suggests:
ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.80-7
ii powermgmt-base 1.31
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/cron.d/anacron changed:
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
30 7 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron && anacron -s
-- no debconf information
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