Package: popularity-contest Version: =1.64 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi,
Could you please add a "PERSISTENT=true" environment variable to the new generated crontabs ? When the cron-daemon is provided by 'systemd-cron' alternative implementation, this got translated to "Persistent=true" in the generated systemd timer. That gives this crontab anacron-like powers: if the timer elaspsed while the system was down, the job is executed after next boot. By the way, the "Suggests: anacron" is not applicable anymore, as anacron doesn't process the jobs in /etc/cron.d . Vixie's cron will ignore this environment variable. Greets, --- popularity-contest 2015-09-15 20:43:23.714645204 +0200 +++ popularity-contest 2015-09-15 20:44:29.364004449 +0200 @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin +PERSISTENT=true 56 18 * * * root test -x /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest && /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest --crond -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (450, 'unstable'), (400, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)