Hourly cron jobs running to early

[Spil Oss]

Yup, this fixes the cron jobs running early.

Should this not be merged into release/10.0 as well???

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Spil Oss <spil.oss at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry, forgot to mention that this is indeed i386...
>
> Applied the patch and it looks as though cron is behaving now
>
> Before
> Jun 30 18:58:59 gw /usr/sbin/cron[25911]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun)
> Jun 30 18:58:59 gw /usr/sbin/cron[25912]: (operator) CMD
> (/usr/libexec/save-entropy)
>
> After
> Jun 30 19:10:00 gw /usr/sbin/cron[26085]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun)
> Jun 30 19:11:00 gw /usr/sbin/cron[26097]: (operator) CMD
> (/usr/libexec/save-entropy)
>
> Hourly will take a while...
>
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 7:01 PM,  <cdr.nil at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
>>> stable at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Konstantin Belousov
>>> Sent: 30 June 2014 14:19
>>> To: cdr.nil at gmail.com
>>> Cc: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
>>> Subject: Re: Hourly cron jobs running to early
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 02:03:31PM +0100, cdr.nil at gmail.com wrote:
>>> > Folks,
>>> >
>>> > I, too, am seeing a problem of cron running jobs a few seconds too
>> early.
>>> > This is on a Thinkpad T42 running:
>>> >
>>> > FreeBSD cobalt 10.0-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p6 #3 r267829M: Wed
>> Jun
>>> > 25 07:41:33 BST 2014     root at cobalt:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>>> >
>>> > BIOS clock is running UTC and is under ntpd control.
>>> >
>>> > I noticed this on a logging cron job that is supposed to run on the
>> hour.
>>> > These are the last few timings:
>>> >
>>> > 03:59:47
>>> > 04:59:12
>>> > 05:59:47
>>> > 06:59:47
>>> > 07:59:47
>>> > 08:59:47
>>> > 09:59:47
>>> > 10:59:47
>>> > 11:59:47
>>> > 12:59:47
>>> >
>>> The head r261146, merged to stable/10 as r261231, seems to be
>>> relevant.
>>
>> Konstantin,
>>
>> Thanks for the pointer.  I've applied the patch and cron seems to be
>> behaving itself.
>>
>> -mark
>>
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