Re: What does 'apt' in /etc/cron.daily do?
On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 07:57:46AM +0000, Curt wrote:
> On 2013-10-06, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> >
> > I think that comment was basically that /etc/cron.daily/apt doesn't
> > have anything to do with log rotation. So you are barking up the
> > wrong tree.
>
> Maybe he thought that given the apt script is run before the logrotate
> script in cron.daily (if indeed they're handled in alphabetical order?
> (apparently, yes, they're run in 'lexical sort order' order according to
> the run-parts man page)), if the apt script hung for any reason, the
> logrotate script would never get past the bottleneck, thus "explaining"
> his problem.
Remember what Benny Hill said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6jaKkE0RsI
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