Got another email this morning. Here's the relevant lines from /var/log/syslog showing the overlap between the first anacron and the second started by cron.
Apr 16 07:29:40 orac cron[1097]: (CRON) INFO (pidfile fd = 3) Apr 16 07:29:40 orac anacron[1111]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2011-04-16 Apr 16 07:29:40 orac cron[1159]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok) Apr 16 07:29:40 orac anacron[1111]: Will run job `cron.daily' in 125 min. Apr 16 07:29:40 orac anacron[1111]: Will run job `cron.weekly' in 130 min. Apr 16 07:29:40 orac anacron[1111]: Jobs will be executed sequentially Apr 16 07:29:41 orac cron[1159]: (CRON) INFO (Running @reboot jobs) Apr 16 07:30:01 orac CRON[1554]: (root) CMD (start -q anacron || :) Apr 16 08:17:01 orac CRON[2917]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly) Apr 16 09:17:01 orac CRON[6188]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly) Apr 16 09:34:40 orac anacron[1111]: Job `cron.daily' started Apr 16 09:34:40 orac anacron[7716]: Updated timestamp for job `cron.daily' to 2011-04-16 My longer initial delays for anacron show up the issue more by increasing the window that it can occur in, but it's there with the default delays too. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/606491 Title: start: Job is already running: anacron -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs