On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 03:58:55PM +0100, Martin Bock wrote: > Hello again! > > > I have a similar problem on my Acer Travelmate 801. Now that I have > > checked the script you mentioned, and found it being correct, I was > > just wondering how to troubleshoot the anacron not starting. Where > > did you begin to search? > > Sorry, forgot to mention that I am running Testing/Unstable on kernel > 2.4.24. > > Thanks in advance, Martin Bock
Well, things are never as simple as they seem... As a previous poster mentioned, this issue depends on individual hardware and possibly on the release, the kernel version, etc... so it appears that the proper test in /usr/bin/on_ac_power should include reading the system tables to determine the location of the /proc file. But, to answer your question, first I tried to understand logrotate and see if there was something odd there. Then, since logrotate is driven by cron, I started at /etc/init.d to see what was going on there. I checked the /etc/rc.d* links, found that there was cron AND anacron, followed the different scripts until I found /usr/bin/on_ac_power. No doubt your problem is caused by something completely different given that you're running a mixture (is that right?) of testing/unstable. Sorry I can't be of more help. I've only run stable here. A.
