问题:

I have installed cron via apt-get install cron

Trying to start cron fails (as expected) because of upstart not running.

What is the command line for starting cron properly (i.e. it will read users' crontabs, will read /etc/crontab/* etc)?

Please note that I do not want to start the container as a "full" machine, so I don't want to run /sbin/init or upstart. I manage the processes via supervisord, so what I 'm missing is the command line to add to its configuration file.

回答1:

You can run cron without daemon mode.

root@xxxxxx:~# cron -f

I was just trying to test it:

I started /bin/bash in a new container
apt-get install cron nano screen
getty tty -a root
screen, in screen I created 2 terminals:
first: cron -f
second: crontab -e - edit your crontab, save and you can watch that the cron is working ...

回答2:

I just start cron with the plain cron command which will start it as daemon, while I later keep the process of my start script blocking with tail -f <my logfile>.