I've edited /etc/crontab to change the time (ana)cron runs its daily, weekly, and monthly scripts. They still seem to run after 7 am and not at 5:25. The system has been rebooted since the crontab change (not my fault!), so any and all daemons have been restrted since the change.
I am a little confused about the structure of the crontab command that refers to the daily, weekly, and monthly cron schedules. Since anacron is installed on my system, 'test -e /usr/sbin/anacron' returns 0. Thus, since the second command only runs IFF the first command returns a non-zero status, it seems that these crontab entries don't trigger anacron or the run-parts. (And then the /etc/cron[daily|monthly|weekly] all have 0anacron scripts that seem to run run-parts on the self directory. Between my change making no difference and closely examining the crontab entries, I am now left puzzled where anacron is scheduled to run when the system is up for over 24 hours. Any suggestions on what i may be missing in scheduling the run time for anacron? Thanks in advance, judith >From /etc/crontab: # m h dom mon dow user command 25 5 * * * root test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily 27 5 * * 7 root test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly 29 5 1 * * root test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly # zmore /usr/share/doc/anacron/README.gz " In addition to running Anacron from the boot-scripts, it is also recommended to schedule it as a daily cron-job (usually at an early morning hour), so that if the machine is kept running for a night, jobs for the next day will still be executed." more /usr/share/doc/anacron/README.Debian "To avoid cron and anacron running the same job, place a line like: test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts in your crontab. This will check if anacron exists and if not, it will let cron do its thing. The advantage is that if you later remove anacron, this will still work." < 145 10:11am greycat:/> /usr/sbin/anacron -V Anacron 2.1 Copyright (C) 1998 Itai Tzur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Copyright (C) 1999 Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mail comments, suggestions and bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
