All,
I've just discovered that my various Devuan systems aren't running
cron.daily or cron.weekly tasks because /etc/crontab performs a test on
anacron being present. However /etc/crontab doesn't need anacron for
cron.hourly:
# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab
# Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab'
# command to install the new version when you edit this file
# and files in /etc/cron.d. These files also have username fields,
# that none of the other crontabs do.
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
# Example of job definition:
# .---------------- minute (0 - 59)
# | .------------- hour (0 - 23)
# | | .---------- day of month (1 - 31)
# | | | .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ...
# | | | | .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR
sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat
# | | | | |
# * * * * * user-name command to be executed
17 * * * * root cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
25 6 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts
--report /etc/cron.daily )
47 6 * * 7 root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts
--report /etc/cron.weekly )
52 6 1 * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts
--report /etc/cron.monthly )
Why do we need anacron at all? Surely we can just do:
17 * * * * root cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
25 6 * * * root cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily
47 6 * * 7 root cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly
52 6 1 * * root cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly
... or am I missing something?
Mike
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