Package: sitesummary-client Version: 0.1.57 The sitesummary-client daily cron job jurrently has a random delay of up to one hour which is intended to prevent all clients in a network from submitting their reports at the same time overloading the server.
This has some unfortunate consequences, anacron uses run-parts which runs scripts sequentially so it also holds up execution of all scripts ordered after it and since bookworm the anacron systemd service has an infinite stop timeout (see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=915379#38) which means that stopping/restarting the anacron service is blocked until execution has finished. This is particularly bad in case of shutdown or reboot which may be blocked for up to an hour without any means to override execept a hard power off. IMHO both the lack of timeout in anacron and sleep in the cron.daily script are problematic. There are two possible solutions: - a shorter maximum delay - stop using anacron and rely on systemd timers which support random delays -- Guido Berhoerster
