Bug 105922

Summary:	cron runs the first time the system is started, slowing down the system tremendously
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Joe Shaw <joeshaw>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Mads Martin Joergensen <mmj>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 2
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Joe Shaw 2005-08-19 19:43:20 UTC

The first time the system runs, it executes all of the cron jobs, at least the
ones in cron.daily.  This means things like the beagle index builder, the mandb
updater, and (if you installed it) updatedb run, which put a tremendous IO
burden on the system.  It would be best if these ran in the middle of the night
as they are supposed to.

Comment 1 Hendrik Vogelsang 2005-08-22 11:01:08 UTC

they are not supposed to run at a fixed time. Just once daily. It is on purpose
that these run 15 minutes after boot (run-crons from /etc/crontab). If you want
to have them run at a fixed time you should use /etc/crontab not the directorys...