Bug#829438: systemd-cron: cron-{daily, weekly, monthly}.service (and boot_delay) is part of the system's startup time

Teemu Likonen tlikonen at iki.fi
Sun Jul 3 11:30:50 BST 2016


Package: systemd-cron
Version: 1.5.4-2
Severity: minor

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Systemd service cron-daily.service has line

    ExecStartPre=/lib/systemd-cron/boot_delay 5

which makes it wait until system's uptime is at least 5 minutes. The
delay is also part of Systemd's startup time as reported by journal:

    [...] systemd[1]: Startup finished in 4.159s (kernel) + 4min 58.016s (userspace) = 5min 2.175s.

See the userspace and total time. The delay also shows in the graph
produced by command "systemd-analyze plot" (I'll try to include an
attachment).

This is a minor issue but it would be nice if cron services weren't part
of the startup time.

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