On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 11:07:01 +0200 (EET) Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello list, > > among various tasks, I also run "sysstat" for monitoring my server's > load. The way it runs by default is via the hourly cron, as a job > that lasts exactly one hour. Sometimes I need to stop crond > (systemctl stop dcron) to perform some short maintainance, and > restart it a minute later that I'm done. > > Previously the "sadc" monitoring process of sysstat wasn't being > killed, since it double forked and stayed up as a daemon. > Unfortunately now systemd kills the whole cgroup, and in this manner > it's possible to lose up to one hour of accounting logs. Any ideas on > how to instruct systemd to not kill it when terminating crond? > > > Thanks in advance, > Dimitris > As a sidenote: You could use a systemd timer unit instead of cron. You can start/stop them on a per unit basis instead of having to kill off the whole of cron.
