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Bug#479800: marked as done (exit BEFORE random_sleep() in cron script)

Your message dated Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:27:33 +0200
with message-id <87zllgex7u.fsf@gmx.de>
and subject line Re: Bug#479141: apt: cron.daily script delays other cron tasks
has caused the Debian Bug report #479141,
regarding exit BEFORE random_sleep() in cron script
to be marked as done.

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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.12
File: /etc/cron.daily/apt

Please have /etc/cron.daily/apt check its variables and realize if it
has any work to do and if not EXIT BEFORE waiting around the
random_sleep()!

The user might not have the *luxury* of turning his computer on for
how long you *assume* he will.

Indeed, please FIRST check all the variables, and if all are 0, please
exit before even loading all those bash functions.

First task before all others: Are we to do any work at all? If no then
exit as early in the script as possible.

E.g., "a quick addition of the variables gives zero, exiting here".

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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.15

On 2008-05-03 07:49 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:

> In the last few days I was wondering whether my system was
> broken. Saw messages like that in xconsole:
>
> ,----
> | May  3 06:40:19 debian anacron[2600]: Job `cron.daily' started
> | May  3 06:40:19 debian anacron[2745]: Updated timestamp for job `cron.daily' to 2008-05-03
> `----
>
> and then nothing happened for quite some time.  You probably can figure
> out more easily than me why that is the case, it would be nice if your
> cron.daily script could check whether it should do anything *before*
> sleeping up to 30 minutes and holding up everyone else.

This is fixed in apt 0.7.15.  Maybe it was already in 0.7.14, but only
yesterday I accepted the new /etc/cron.daily/apt conffile (had put an
"exit 0" at the top of it before).  Today's cron job for apt took only
one second, so the bug can be closed.

Sven

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