Rusi Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> writes: > On Monday, December 3, 2018 at 1:30:07 PM UTC+5:30, Kamil Jońca wrote: >> I have in my /etc/cron.daily some local scripts. >> Some of them can be occassionally time-consuming. >> Recently I found that some of them did not end. >> And what I found: >> 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 :( >> >> So my question is: is it safe to remove/disable anacron timer? > > Best bet is switch to using systemd timers
Ekhem. My personal cron entries are called regardles I am logged in or not. How can I achieve this with systemd "user" timers? Second question: Why systemd kills my jobs? (Yes I know what parameters are responsible for this, but why they are configured that way?) KJ -- http://stopstopnop.pl/stop_stopnop.pl_o_nas.html The Ancient Doctrine of Mind Over Matter: I don't mind... and you don't matter. -- As revealed to reporter G. Rivera by Swami Havabanana
