Also, do not stop cron but restart it in that target,
and do away with the dedicated running stop/start block.
sgran says this isn't crazy, so commit quickly before
he changes his mind.
if timestamp > 90 minutes for 9 cycles then exec "/etc/init.d/puppet stop"
depends on puppetd
-check process cron with pidfile /var/run/crond.pid
- start program = "/etc/init.d/cron start"
- stop program = "/etc/init.d/cron stop"
- if 5 restarts within 5 cycles then timeout
-
check file cronalive
with path /var/cache/dsa/cron.alive
- if timestamp > 120 minutes for 5 cycles then exec "/etc/init.d/cron stop"
- depends on cron
+ # a cycle is 5 minutes, 24 cycles is thus 2 hours
+ if timestamp > 120 minutes for 24 cycles then exec "/etc/init.d/cron restart"