Re: PROPOSAL to serialize cron.{daily,weekly,monthly}
On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 04:45:54AM +0300, Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote:
> Please inform me if there's a better place to (cross)post this.
>
> Current Situation:
> cron.daily, cron.weekly, and cron.monthly gets triggered off at specific
> times (everyday at 6:25, Sunday at 6:47 and 1st of the month at 6:52,
> respectively) regardless of whether previous batch of maintenance scripts
> has finished or not. This may result in parallel execution of scripts from
> several batches, although each batch in itself is serialized. This, in
> turn, can cause consequences ranging from wrong output to fatal script
> clash. For instance a script from cron.daily might be scanning the volumes
> for viruses, while a script from cron.weekly kicks in, force-unmounts
> several volumes (killing the processes using those volumes BTW) and starts
> backing up them. Examples are endless.
Maybe we should put fcron in base?
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