restarting cron kills children on 16.04 - did not kill on 14.04

[Thomas d'Otreppe]

In the middle of a script run by cron, I'm restarting the cron service (service cron restart).

The script finishes just fine on 14.04 (and keeps doing whatever is after the cron restart). On 16.04, it kills the script meaning that it kills all its children.

Behavior should be reverted where children are not killed upon restart.

[Flames_in_Paradise (ellisistfroh-deactivatedaccount)]

possibly a dupe of bug 1541302 (beeing x-linked already by comment)

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

This is fixed in Debian with the following change:

cron (3.0pl1-128) unstable; urgency=medium

  * d/cron.service: Use KillMode=process to kill only the daemon.
    The default of KillMode=control-group kills all the processes in the control group, for example when restarting the daemon. This is a deviation from past behavior we do not want. Thanks, Alexandre Detiste! Closes: #783683