Bug 105922 - cron runs the first time the system is started, slowing down the system tremendously
Summary: cron runs the first time the system is started, slowing down the system treme...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Other (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 2
Hardware: Other All
: P5 - None : Major
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mads Martin Joergensen
QA Contact: E-mail List
URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2005-08-19 19:43 UTC by Joe Shaw
Modified: 2005-08-22 11:01 UTC (History)
0 users

See Also:
Found By: Other
Services Priority:
Business Priority:
Blocker: ---
Marketing QA Status: ---
IT Deployment: ---

Attachments
Add an attachment (proposed patch, testcase, etc.)

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.
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...