On Saturday 01 May 2004 6:13 pm, R. Clayton wrote: > I've discovered that cron.daily isn't being run (the locate database > is 8 days old (I ran updatedb manually at one point), > /usr/lib/man-cb/mandb hasn't been updated since 15 August 2003, and > so on). The command for daily in /etc/crontab is > > test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --verbose /etc/cron.daily > > which, to my eyes, checks for /usr/sbin/anacron and, if it exists > (which it does), does nothing; it's only when /usr/sbin/anacron > doesn't exist that /etc/cron.daily runs. Because I can't figure out > how anacron gets run (there's no crontab entry I can find), this > strikes me as wrong, but maybe I just don't understand. > > Does anybody know what the story is here and, more importantly, how I > can get daily cron jobs back (as well as weekly and monthly jobs, > because their commands are of the same form)? Of course, I could > just uninstall anacron (or rewrite crontab), but is that recommended? > If not, what is?
Hey, I've just replied to this once and then realised I misread it (too much wine). Are you sure you have anacron installed?, because if you have, then frankly your problem is beyond me and I am out of my depth again. ;) Cheers (raising glass) Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
