Bug#964438: apt-listbugs: dns error when running from cron job

[Michael Biebl]

Am 26.07.20 um 23:12 schrieb Francesco Poli:
> On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 22:48:18 +0200 Michael Biebl wrote:
> 
>> Am 26.07.20 um 22:43 schrieb Francesco Poli:
>>> On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 22:22:55 +0200 Michael Biebl wrote:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>> Afaics, the problem is, that your service does not properly handle the
>>>> case, when the network is not available.
>>>
>>> It does, that's the reason why the operation is attempted hourly.
>>
>> The bug report was about apt-listbugs throwing an error if network is
>> not available.
> 
> We can argue that the service should be more silent in case of network
> errors, or maybe it's OK that it throws an error.
> But that's not the point.
> 
> The point is that the timer triggers during wake-up, while it should

Not entirely correct. The timer only triggers if the time specified in
the timer unit has elapsed while the system was asleep.

> behave as it does during a boot (wait for at least 5 min and then
> trigger hourly, with a random delay).

Again, this is a misunderstanding how OnActiveSec= works.
And even then, a 5min delay would not guarantee that network is up.

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