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

[Alexandre Detiste]

Hi,

> Teemu Likonen <tlikonen at iki.fi>
> Sun, 03 Jul 2016 13:30:50 +0300
>
>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.
>


Thank you for your bug repport; I had noticed the same behaviour,
but had no clue how to fix it back then.

It is also likely linked with systemd version used.

I have forwarded this bug to the upstream repository to give it
a larger audience, so maybe someone can provide a solution.

https://github.com/systemd-cron/systemd-cron/issues/50

Alexandre Detiste