Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 65274
apmscript does not run anacron on start
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:27:30 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020326 Description of problem: When a laptop with apmd is booted, anacron is not run. However, is suspended and resumed it is. This has the inconvenient that if the laptop is not suspended/resumed very often the anacron jobs will not run very often. The start event of apmd should start anacron, in the same way as the resume event does. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): apmd-3.0final-34 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot laptop with apmd configured 2. 3. Actual Results: anacron is never run if the laptop does not go through a suspend/resume cycle. Note that adding anacron as a service to start on boot is not an option, since that would not prevent running anacron if the laptop is on batteries. Expected Results: Run anacron on the apmd start event. Maybe it would be of interest to run it also when the power changes from battery to on-line (if anacron is configured not to run on batteries). Additional info:
I have a problem with anacron that is pertinent to this bug report. I have all cron-related services turned off, including anacron. When I suspend my laptop, then resume, I don't want anacron to run. Why should it, since it is not an enabled service.
Closing out bugs on older unsupported releases. Apologies for any lack of response. Please reopen if it persists on current releases such as Fedora Core 3.