Description of problem: My logwatch mail from /etc/cron.daily normally shows up at exactly 3:55 AM. Last night (or really early this morning) I rebooted my fedora 8 partition at 24 minutes after midnight. This morning I have one logwatch mail from 2:23 AM and another from 3:55 AM. Something about booting after midnight seems to have convinced anacron I missed the daily cron job, even though it wasn't actually scheduled to run for this day till later. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anacron-2.3-57.fc8 How reproducible: I've seen this before, so I think it happens every time, but it takes a day to reproduce and I need to stay up late, so I haven't explicitly tried it again. Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot system shortly after midnight 2. see anacron "rerun" jobs that hadn't actually been missed. 3. Actual results: duplicate cron jobs Expected results: just the scheduled cron jobs Additional info: The times above are all for eastern time zone where my computer is, the system clock is set to keep UTC time.
Thank you for remind. I've forgotten push this change into F-8. Please test it before I put it into stable.
anacron-2.3-58.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/anacron-2.3-58.fc8
anacron-2.3-58.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update anacron'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-9335
anacron-2.3-58.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.