Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <h...@debian.org> writes: > On Mon, 03 Dec 2018, Kamil Jońca wrote: >> 1. as "everybody" knows, in case of anacron presence, system cron jobs >> are delegated to anacron. >> 2. recently in Debian we have anacron.timer which also runs "cron.daily" >> entry. >> 3. there is a timeout in systemd services which cause to kill my jobs :( > > Eh, that will only happen if you try to stop the anacron service, > otherwise the timeout would apply to anacron _itself_ failing to start, > not to any of its jobs... > >> Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: State 'stop-sigterm' timed >> out. Killing. > > See, someone or some script told systemd to stop anacron (or maybe to > stop-and-start/restart it). THIS is causing the undesired behavior.
Could you, please, interpret these logs (excerpt from "journalctl -u anacron.service" result) Dec 03 00:03:45 alfa systemd[1]: Started Run anacron jobs. Dec 03 00:03:45 alfa anacron[8919]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2018-12-03 Dec 03 00:03:45 alfa anacron[8919]: Will run job `cron.daily' in 5 min. Dec 03 00:03:45 alfa anacron[8919]: Will run job `cron.weekly' in 10 min. Dec 03 00:03:45 alfa anacron[8919]: Jobs will be executed sequentially Dec 03 00:08:45 alfa anacron[8919]: Job `cron.daily' started Dec 03 00:08:45 alfa anacron[9253]: Updated timestamp for job `cron.daily' to 2018-12-03 Dec 03 00:17:55 alfa sudo[14045]: root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=f4y ; COMMAND=/bin/bash -c /home/kjonca/archive.sh Dec 03 00:17:55 alfa sudo[14045]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user kjonca by (uid=0) Dec 03 00:17:56 alfa sudo[14045]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user kjonca Dec 03 00:17:56 alfa sudo[14049]: root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=news ; COMMAND=/usr/local/lib/news/dumpnews Dec 03 00:17:56 alfa sudo[14049]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user news by (uid=0) Dec 03 00:22:24 alfa systemd[1]: Stopping Run anacron jobs... Dec 03 00:22:24 alfa anacron[8919]: Received SIGUSR1 Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: State 'stop-sigterm' timed out. Killing. Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: Killing process 8919 (anacron) with signal SIGKILL. Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: Killing process 9249 (sh) with signal SIGKILL. Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: Killing process 9250 (run-parts) with signal SIGKILL. Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: Killing process 9409 (local) with signal SIGKILL. Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: Killing process 14049 (sudo) with signal SIGKILL. Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: Killing process 14050 (dumpnews) with signal SIGKILL. Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: Killing process 14067 (sort) with signal SIGKILL. Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: Killing process 14068 (tar) with signal SIGKILL. Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: Killing process 14069 (xz) with signal SIGKILL. Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=9/KILL Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: Killing process 9249 (sh) with signal SIGKILL. Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: Killing process 9250 (run-parts) with signal SIGKILL. Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: Killing process 14049 (sudo) with signal SIGKILL. Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: Killing process 14050 (dumpnews) with signal SIGKILL. Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: Killing process 14067 (sort) with signal SIGKILL. Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: Killing process 14068 (tar) with signal SIGKILL. Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: Killing process 14069 (xz) with signal SIGKILL. Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: anacron.service: Failed with result 'timeout'. Dec 03 00:23:54 alfa systemd[1]: Stopped Run anacron jobs. Dec 03 01:00:02 alfa systemd[1]: Started Run anacron jobs. > > I am not sure what the proper fix would be in this case, depends on what > caused the attempt to stop (or maybe restart) the service. I have NO scripts which kill anacron. IMO it is systemd thing. KJ -- http://wolnelektury.pl/wesprzyj/teraz/ The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded. -- George Orwell
