Bug 768078 - RFE: Automatic System Tasks: running anacron and cron in foreground
Summary: RFE: Automatic System Tasks: running anacron and cron in foreground
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Status: CLOSED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora Documentation
Classification: Fedora
Component: system-administrator's-guide
Version: devel
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Stephen Wadeley
QA Contact: Christopher Antila
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-12-15 17:20 UTC by Eva Kopalova
Modified: 2024-05-31 13:33 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2024-05-31 13:33:16 UTC
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Description Eva Kopalova 2011-12-15 17:20:34 UTC
Include instructions of running anacron and cron in foreground.

Comment 1 Marcela Mašláňová 2011-12-16 13:34:00 UTC
The cron daeamon can run in foreground in case it's used for debuging. But the original manual page is a little strange:
-n     Tells the daemon to run in the foreground. This can be useful when starting it out of init.

I thought "starting out of init" means by init, so /etc/init.d/crond. It might be rephrased to run for debugging in foreground. Anacron is usual binary and doesn't have possibility to run in foreground or background.

The manual page should be probably changed to mention systemd specifics. Since F-15 is used systemd, which works differently with daemons. Systemd runs a daemon in foreground, so it's executed according to setting in:
/lib/systemd/system/crond.service
It's executed with -n option.

Comment 2 Jaromir Hradilek 2012-03-21 16:33:17 UTC
Thank you very much for taking the time to file this RFE, I'll see what I can do.

Comment 4 Petr Bokoc 2024-05-31 13:33:16 UTC
We don't seem to have a cron/anacron section anymore.


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