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From: Erno Kuusela <erno@iki.fi>
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Subject: unstuck nfs mount should not cause several days worth of cron jobs at once
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Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-69
Severity: wishlist

hello,

i am not quite sure if this is the correct package to file the bug on,
or how one might fix this, but it would be nice if the debian cron system
had some way to resist nfs braindamage.

there was a nfs mount the server of which had gone and when i got
around fixing things there were about 20 logrotates and misc. things
running, and my box seemed generally unhappy about this.
perhaps crond should use some locking so that many copies of the
same cron job don't wind up running at the same time, or similar.

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux fabulous 2.2.19pre3 #1 Fri Dec 22 04:06:11 EET 2000 i586
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI

Versions of packages cron depends on:
ii  debianutils                   1.15       Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                         2.2.3-5    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libpam0g                      0.72-25    Pluggable Authentication Modules l