>
>
> 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?
>
/etc/anacrontab, /var/spool/anacron/*, anacron (8), anacron (5),
/usr/share/doc/cron/README.anacron, /sur/share/doc/anacron/README.Debian.
I didn't tried to find out for sure but I guess that the scheduling of anacron
is related to the content or the time stamp of /var/spool/anacron/*.
/etc/init.d/anacron might also be involved.
> 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
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> Copyright (C) 1999 Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
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