Hi
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:47:54AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:30:47AM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 10:13:36AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > > on systems with a long sources.list, servers unreachable and cron-apt
> > > being invoked often, it is possible that a new cron-apt is started
> > You really use cron-apt heavily. ;)
>
> Yes, on all my systems.
>
> > > At this time, $TMPDIR/initlog was already created, but onexit()
> > > doesn't zap $TMPDIR/initlog, and thus the rmdir $TMPDIR in onexit()
> > > fails ("Directory not empty"). This error message is delivered by cron
> > > in an extra mail message.
> >
> > But in this case it should not zap this file?
>
> Why shouldn't it?
Doh! I read $TMP instead of $TMPDIR. :)
> > And in that case what should happen is thta the rmdir operation
> > should not display a problem if it is not empty.
> >
> > Something like this instead.
> > rmdir xxx > /dev/null 2>&1
> >
> > Is that a sufficient solution for you?
>
> That would leave a temp directory _and_ a temp file around for each
> invocation. This night alone (where ftp2.d.o was down for the better
> part of the night) this amounted to like 200 inodes.
Not good.
> I would prefer cron-apt properly cleaning up. Probably, the contents
> of initlog could be prepended to the "cannot acquire cron-apt lock"
> message.
I fully agree.
Can you arrange a patch (that you test) or do you want me to correct this
problem?
Regards,
// Ola
> Greetings
> Marc
>
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