Monthly mailing list archives: monthly-ml-tasks

[Jason Molenda]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 11:43:39PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:

> I believe I found why this is the case.  Consider the following entry
> in the crontab of listarch user:
> 
>   5 6 1 * * cd /sourceware/infra/monthly-ml-tasks; exec ./DOIT.sh
> 
> Indeed, this job is run on the first day of the month, at 6:05.  Are
> there any objections if I move this to 0:07?


Unless I'm remembering incorrectly, there is a entry for root which
HUPs apache a little while after the redirects/index pages have been
updated.  My guess is that the time of this crontab is related to
that crontab.

I'd recommend leaving some time between the two processes -- an hour
say -- so that any mail archiving that is in the middle of happening
has a chance to clear out.  But that's just MHO.  I purposefully wrote
in the 6 hour delay originally out of laziness - I didn't want to think
through the consequences of timing it closely and didn't think it really
mattered if there was a gap of a few hours.  I don't mind someone trying
to fix it, but I wouldn't try to get down to minutes-after-midnight.
If there is a big backlog of e-mail traffic to a mailing list like
gcc@, a lot of processes could be waiting for a lock in www-archives.sh.


J