executionTimeout and killTimeout not working about yacron HOT 1 CLOSED

Your problem is essentially a common pitfall of shell scripts. The documentation says:

The command can be a string or a list of strings. If command is a string, yacron runs it through a shell, which is /bin/bash in the above example, but is /bin/sh by default.

If the command is a list of strings, the command is executed directly, without a shell.

The configuration

command: |
      sleep 999

causes yacron to execute /bin/sh -c "sleep 999". That creates a tree of two processes:

1. /bin/sh (parent)
2. sleep 999 (child)
   Then, when yacron tries to terminate the process, after timeout, it sends a signal to the parent process, /bin/sh, which correctly terminates, but leaves child sleep 999 running, orphaned.

There are multiple ways to fix this issue.

Option 1: put an exec.

command: |
      exec sleep 999

In this case, yacron runs /bin/sh -c "exec sleep 999". But the exec keyword causes the sleep command to replace the parent process, taking its place, so you no longer have parent and child, only parent.

Option 2: tell yacron not to run a shell at all, giving it a list of strings as command:

    command:
      - sleep
      - "999"

This causes yacron to run /usr/bin/sleep 999 directly, no shell involved.

Option 3: modify the shell code to run to handle SIGTERM:

    command: |
      sleep 999 &
      mysleep=$!
      trap "kill $mysleep" TERM
      wait $mysleep

from yacron.