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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#37237: mcron randomly stops running jobs
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 19:30:26 +0100
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To: Robert Vollmert <rob@vllmrt.net>
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Hi,

Robert Vollmert <rob@vllmrt.net> skribis:

> I have numerous mcron jobs configured, many of which run every 15 minutes,
> and one which runs once a minute. Just now, at 19:22, I noticed the minut=
ely
> cron job didn=E2=80=99t seem to run, and saw that one every-15-minute job=
 which always
> logs to mcron.log had last run at 18:00. I restarted mcron, and jobs star=
ted
> running again. There is no timezone confusion either: That every-15-minut=
e job
> logged its first run at 19:30.

I=E2=80=99ve been bitten by this problem several times already.  I suspect =
the
patch at
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-mcron/2020-02/msg00004.html>
helps with zombies that mcron tends to leave behind, but I=E2=80=99m not su=
re it
helps with this =E2=80=9Cstops running jobs=E2=80=9D problem (I=E2=80=99d n=
eed to grab a C stack
trace of mcron when that happens.)

Anyway, let=E2=80=99s get this fixed!

Ludo=E2=80=99.