Package Details: vixie-cron 4.1-14

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/vixie-cron.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: vixie-cron
Description: Paul Vixie's cron daemon, a fully featured crond implementation
Upstream URL: ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/cron/
Licenses: GPL
Provides: cron, dcron
Submitter: None
Maintainer: zgrim
Last Packager: fukawi2
Votes: 16
Popularity: 0.001710
First Submitted: 2008-07-29 00:51 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2019-07-11 00:28 (UTC)

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fukawi2 commented on 2019-07-11 00:28 (UTC)

Updated, and disowned.

zgrim commented on 2019-07-10 10:30 (UTC)

systemd[1]: /usr/lib/systemd/system/crond.service:6: PIDFile= references a path below legacy directory /var/run/, updating /var/run/cron.pid → /run/cron.pid; please update the unit file accordingly.

Please update the crond.service file to replace /var/run with /run. Thanks!

fukawi2 commented on 2018-07-22 23:51 (UTC)

There's no difference between /usr/bin/ and /usr/sbin on Arch since 2013. See: https://www.archlinux.org/news/binaries-move-to-usrbin-requiring-update-intervention/ and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/arch_packaging_standards#Directories

kuldeep commented on 2018-07-22 00:39 (UTC)

Shouldn't cron be installed in /usr/sbin. See: askubuntu.com/questions/308045/ddg#308048

fukawi2 commented on 2015-06-05 02:50 (UTC)

Thanks for spotting that. I've updated it in -13

jasonlewiscook commented on 2015-06-04 16:07 (UTC)

The systemd unit file distributed with this package is incorrect. The problem: 'Restart' is set to 'always', but no 'Type' is specified, meaning that systemd assumes the default of 'simple'. Since cron actually forks and returns an exit status of 0 to the parent process (in this case, systemd), systemd assumes that cron died and tries to restart it ad infinitium. As a result, systemd's built-in brake mechanism takes over, and it refuses to try to restart it again after several attempts, resulting in: systemd[1]: start request repeated too quickly for crond.service systemd[1]: Failed to start Vixie-cron Periodic Command Scheduler. The solution: The following unit file (usually /usr/lib/systemd/system/crond.service) ----------------------- [Unit] Description=Vixie-cron Periodic Command Scheduler [Service] Type=forking PIDFile=/var/run/cron.pid ExecStart=/usr/bin/cron Restart=always [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target

fukawi2 commented on 2013-06-04 02:06 (UTC)

-12 moves /usr/sbin to /usr/bin and adds systemd unit file

fukawi2 commented on 2013-04-19 05:17 (UTC)

Adopted and updated to remove depreciated $startdir usage

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