Re: PROPOSAL to serialize cron.{daily,weekly,monthly}

[Carlos Sousa <csousa@tvtel.pt>]

On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 21:44:17 +0300 Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote:

> Reply-To: Look@My.Sig

Please *don't* do this! If you don't want direct replies then
just don't set the "Reply-To:" header.

> [...]
> Well, this defeats 3 legs of my previous case, I guess. Still a leg
> remains, however. Namely, syncing the behavior of cron with anacron, so it
> would be a more consistent system, regardless of whether anacron is
> installed or not.

The only issue that appears to remain on this topic is, then,
that in the absence of anacron or other such agents, cron runs
the .xxxly batches without any concern for possible execution
overlaps between them (.weekly starting before .daily ends, for
instance). This could lead to parallell execution of conflicting
jobs, with unpredictable/wrong/disastrous results.

Would that summarize it?

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