Re: Anacron question

2024-07-19 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2024-07-19 at 10:51 +0700, Frederic Muller wrote: > So it runs daily, allow for a delay when starting and supposidely > checks > whether the job has been executed... seems like what I was looking > for no? I'd look into what that actually means. Does it just check that the job was started

Re: Anacron question

2024-07-18 Thread Frederic Muller
great. However wanting to do that daily automatically from my laptop to a local network drive I looked for a way to start the backup like 10 minutes after I switched on the PC and only once a day which led me to anacron. Installed it, set up the anacron job and the problems arrived. Initially tried to r

Re: Anacron question

2024-07-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
> that: > > very easy to setup and works great. > > > > However wanting to do that daily automatically from my laptop to a > > local > > network drive I looked for a way to start the backup like 10 > > minutes > > after I switched on the PC and only

Re: Anacron question

2024-07-18 Thread Mike Wright
local network drive I looked for a way to start the backup like 10 minutes after I switched on the PC and only once a day which led me to anacron. How about a systemd timer that is fired fired 10 minutes after boot. Its ExecStart could call a script that checks for a touched file ( a semaphore

Re: Anacron question

2024-07-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
wanting to do that daily automatically from my laptop to a > local > network drive I looked for a way to start the backup like 10 minutes > after I switched on the PC and only once a day which led me to > anacron. > > Installed it, set up the anacron job and the problems arrived. >

Anacron question

2024-07-18 Thread Frederic Muller
start the backup like 10 minutes after I switched on the PC and only once a day which led me to anacron. Installed it, set up the anacron job and the problems arrived. Initially tried to run it as my user but that didn't work. @daily  10  daily-backup    su fred -c "/home/fred

Re: resynchronize anacron

2022-02-10 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 09:41:23PM +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, Currently anacrontab is set 7 25 cron.weekly nice run-parts /etc/cron.weekly It means that it run every Thursday. I am no satisfied by thus day. How can I have it running every Saturday ? crontab is no

Re: resynchronize anacron

2022-02-10 Thread Jonathan Billings
doesn’t actually set a day of week, just the interval between runs. It checks a date in /var/spool/anacron/cron.weekly, and if it has been more than 7 days (that’s what the 7 stands for in that line) then it runs. Then it sets the date in the spool file for that day, so subsequent checks will ref

Re: resynchronize anacron

2022-02-10 Thread Tom Horsley
My fix to anacron is to eradicate it and run everything in cron which doesn't randomize run times :-). Put back the traditional /etc/crontab and remove the /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron file, and now cron works the way it always did. ___ users mailing

Re: resynchronize anacron

2022-02-10 Thread Joe Zeff
On 2/10/22 14:08, Patrick Dupre wrote: On 2/10/22 13:41, Patrick Dupre wrote: Currently anacrontab is set 7 25 cron.weekly nice run-parts /etc/cron.weekly It means that it run every Thursday. I am no satisfied by thus day. How can I have it running every Saturday ? No, t

Re: resynchronize anacron

2022-02-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2/10/22 12:41, Patrick Dupre wrote: How can I have it running every Saturday ? Change the "last run date" in /var/spool/anacron/cron.weekly. (For reference: This is indicated by the "FILES" section of the anacron(8) man page.) _

Re: resynchronize anacron

2022-02-10 Thread Richard England
On 2/10/22 13:08, Patrick Dupre wrote: On 2/10/22 13:41, Patrick Dupre wrote: Currently anacrontab is set 7 25 cron.weekly nice run-parts /etc/cron.weekly It means that it run every Thursday. I am no satisfied by thus day. How can I have it running every Saturday ? No, t

Re: resynchronize anacron

2022-02-10 Thread Patrick Dupre
> On 2/10/22 13:41, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > Currently anacrontab is set > > 7 25 cron.weekly nice run-parts /etc/cron.weekly > > > > It means that it run every Thursday. > > I am no satisfied by thus day. > > How can I have it running every Saturday ? > > No, the man page f

Re: resynchronize anacron

2022-02-10 Thread Joe Zeff
On 2/10/22 13:41, Patrick Dupre wrote: Currently anacrontab is set 7 25 cron.weekly nice run-parts /etc/cron.weekly It means that it run every Thursday. I am no satisfied by thus day. How can I have it running every Saturday ? No, the man page for /etc/crontab says that

resynchronize anacron

2022-02-10 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, Currently anacrontab is set 7 25 cron.weekly nice run-parts /etc/cron.weekly It means that it run every Thursday. I am no satisfied by thus day. How can I have it running every Saturday ? crontab is not activated #30 12 * * 6 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly 6 would

Re: crond/anacron

2021-12-11 Thread Jonathan Billings
etc/cron.hourly/0anacron that calls anacron. The anacron job calls cron.daily and cron.weekly from /etc/anacrontab. That’s why you have two jobs running. They’re both running through cron.daily and cron.weekly twice. I suspect either you added those lines at some point or the system had it a

Re: crond/anacron

2021-12-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/12/2021 23:48, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: Even easier is to use a systemd service and timer (system or user) to start this backup: this will do this locking for you. Needless to say, you are correct.  Need to rewire my old-school brain. -- Did 황준호 die?

Re: crond/anacron

2021-12-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/12/2021 02:44, Patrick Dupre wrote: Thank for all the comments. Francis Montagnac had the best suggestion. -- Did 황준호 die? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: crond/anacron

2021-12-11 Thread Patrick Dupre
=== > Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2021 at 5:08 PM > From: "Jonathan Billings" > To: "Community support for Fedora users" > Subject: Re: crond/anacron > > > > > On Dec 11, 2021, at 10:38, Jonathan

Re: crond/anacron

2021-12-11 Thread Jonathan Billings
> On Dec 11, 2021, at 10:38, Jonathan Billings wrote: > > The thing is, Anacron only runs if you boot after the scheduled job is > supposed to run out of cron. It shouldn’t run twice. So maybe you have your > backups scheduled in more than one place? I should be extra clear

Re: crond/anacron

2021-12-11 Thread Francis . Montagnac
Hi On Sat, 11 Dec 2021 23:28:20 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > Are you using your own scripts to perform the backups? > If so, the easy solution would be for the script to check for a "lock file" to > see if another backup is running. ... Even easier is to use a systemd service and timer (system or

Re: crond/anacron

2021-12-11 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Dec 11, 2021, at 09:03, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > I am trouble because I guess that crond and anacron > run are very close times. > Hence, they start a backup when another backup is running. > This creates real problems. > > What do you recommend? > Running on

Re: crond/anacron

2021-12-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/12/2021 22:02, Patrick Dupre wrote: I am trouble because I guess that crond and anacron run are very close times. Hence, they start a backup when another backup is running. This creates real problems. What do you recommend? Are you using your own scripts to perform the backups? If so

crond/anacron

2021-12-11 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, I am trouble because I guess that crond and anacron run are very close times. Hence, they start a backup when another backup is running. This creates real problems. What do you recommend? Running only crond or only anacron? Usually, this machine runs every day for at least 1-2 hours durin

Re: anacron

2019-09-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 15:28:06 +0200 Patrick Dupre wrote: > I only need anacron. You don't only need anacron, because it only runs when cron starts it. Personally, I go to a lot of trouble to eradicate anacron because I don't want jobs running at random times (which is utterly ridicu

Re: anacron

2019-09-22 Thread Patrick Dupre
Thanks. Every looks fine. My point is that both anacron and crond run on a weekly basis, while I only need anacron. > > On my machine, I have crond and anacron running. > > I guess that I do not need crond. > > I can easily manage crond, but waht about anacron? > > >

Re: anacron

2019-09-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 9/22/19 6:17 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: On my machine, I have crond and anacron running. I guess that I do not need crond. I can easily manage crond, but waht about anacron? systemctl status anacron Unit anacron.service could not be found systemctl status anacrond Unit anacrond.service could

anacron

2019-09-22 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, On my machine, I have crond and anacron running. I guess that I do not need crond. I can easily manage crond, but waht about anacron? systemctl status anacron Unit anacron.service could not be found systemctl status anacrond Unit anacrond.service could not be found while systemctl status

Re: anacron

2016-12-03 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 3 December 2016 at 12:54, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > using anacrontab weekly: > This is what I have in my anacrontab file: > 7 15 cron.weekly nice run-parts /etc/cron.weekly > > It seems that it run will be run 7 days after the date in

anacron

2016-12-03 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, using anacrontab weekly: This is what I have in my anacrontab file: 7 15 cron.weekly nice run-parts /etc/cron.weekly It seems that it run will be run 7 days after the date in /var/spool/anacron/cron.weekly Can I change this date ? Thank

Re: Anacron mail -

2016-09-21 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 17 September 2016, Bob Goodwin sent: > Is there a command to display only what I want, a specific day or > perhaps reverse the order so that today's messages are at the top, > display first? Better yet I would think would be to display them in > Thunderbird but I don't kno

Re: anacron/cron

2016-09-19 Thread Fred Erickson
> Well, lovely. I've found that "systemctl --full list-timers" truncates > the display if your terminal isn't wide enough (at least it truncates > using xfce-terminal) and gives you no indication it has done so. Isn't > "--full" supposed to wrap the display so that doesn't happen? That's > what th

Re: anacron/cron

2016-09-19 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/19/2016 03:09 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: Yet another reason I absolutely deplore this systemd/systemctl crap. Complaining about systemd won't do any good; reporting it as a bug might, especially if you specify that you're using Xfce instead of Gnome. ___

Re: anacron/cron

2016-09-19 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 03:09:39PM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > > Well, lovely. I've found that "systemctl --full list-timers" truncates > the display if your terminal isn't wide enough (at least it truncates > using xfce-terminal) and gives you no indication it has done so. Isn't > "--full" suppo

Re: anacron/cron

2016-09-19 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 10:57:01PM +0100, Andy Blanchard wrote: > On 19 September 2016 at 22:38, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > I did: > > systemctl enable mlocate-updatedb.service > > (no error) > > but it still does not seem to be enabled: > > ● mlocate-updatedb.service - Update a database for mlocate

Re: anacron/cron

2016-09-19 Thread Rick Stevens
On 09/19/2016 02:57 PM, Andy Blanchard wrote: > On 19 September 2016 at 22:38, Patrick Dupre wrote: >> I did: >> systemctl enable mlocate-updatedb.service >> (no error) >> but it still does not seem to be enabled: >> ● mlocate-updatedb.service - Update a database for mlocate >>Loaded: loaded (

Re: anacron/cron

2016-09-19 Thread stan
On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 23:19:16 +0200 "Patrick Dupre" wrote: > OK, Thank. > > It was inactive, Then I restart it and now: > ● mlocate-updatedb.service - Update a database for mlocate >Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mlocate-updatedb.service; > static; vendor preset: disable Active: acti

Re: anacron/cron

2016-09-19 Thread Ed Greshko
)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44 > 189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France > === > > >> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2016 at 10:30 PM >&g

Re: anacron/cron

2016-09-19 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 19 September 2016 at 22:38, Patrick Dupre wrote: > I did: > systemctl enable mlocate-updatedb.service > (no error) > but it still does not seem to be enabled: > ● mlocate-updatedb.service - Update a database for mlocate >Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mlocate-updatedb.service; stat

Re: anacron/cron

2016-09-19 Thread Patrick Dupre
| | 59140 Dunkerque, France === > Sent: Monday, September 19, 2016 at 10:30 PM > From: "Andy Blanchard" > To: "Community support for Fedora users" > Subject: Re: anacron/cron > > It *should*

Re: anacron/cron

2016-09-19 Thread Patrick Dupre
ue, France === > Sent: Monday, September 19, 2016 at 10:29 PM > From: stan > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Subject: Re: anacron/cron > > On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 22:04:21 +0200 > "Patrick Dupre" wrote: > > > The point is

Re: anacron/cron

2016-09-19 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 04:28:15PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 10:04:21PM +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > The point is that I am not sure that mlocate (or updatedb) runs properly > > because locate does not find my new files ! > > > > How can I be sure that mlocate runs pro

Re: anacron/cron

2016-09-19 Thread Andy Blanchard
== > > >> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2016 at 10:11 PM >> From: "Joe Zeff" >> To: "Community support for Fedora users" >> Subject: Re: anacron/cron >> >> On 09/19/2016 01:0

Re: anacron/cron

2016-09-19 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 03:15:58PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 20:47:20 +0200 > Patrick Dupre wrote: > > > Sorry, but I do not have > > /etc/cron.daily/mlocate.cron > > This is all part of the systemd fungus experience as it > attempts to engulph all of linux. > > An rpm -q

Re: anacron/cron

2016-09-19 Thread stan
On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 22:04:21 +0200 "Patrick Dupre" wrote: > The point is that I am not sure that mlocate (or updatedb) runs > properly because locate does not find my new files ! > > How can I be sure that mlocate runs properly ? $ systemctl status mlocate-updatedb.service ● mlocate-updatedb.se

Re: anacron/cron

2016-09-19 Thread Jon LaBadie
ferent user, or under a permission protected directory, mlocate will not show them to you. Jon > > > > Sent: Monday, September 19, 2016 at 9:15 PM > > From: "Tom Horsley" > > To: "Patrick Dupre" > > Cc: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > &g

Re: anacron/cron

2016-09-19 Thread Patrick Dupre
ue, France === > Sent: Monday, September 19, 2016 at 10:11 PM > From: "Joe Zeff" > To: "Community support for Fedora users" > Subject: Re: anacron/cron > > On 09/19/2016 01:04 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > How can I be sure that ml

Re: anacron/cron

2016-09-19 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/19/2016 01:04 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: How can I be sure that mlocate runs properly ? If all else fails, run this as root: ls -l /var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db and see when it was last updated. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: anacron/cron

2016-09-19 Thread Patrick Dupre
ue, France === > Sent: Monday, September 19, 2016 at 9:15 PM > From: "Tom Horsley" > To: "Patrick Dupre" > Cc: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Subject: Re: anacron/cron > > On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 20:47:20 +0200 >

Re: anacron/cron

2016-09-19 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 20:47:20 +0200 Patrick Dupre wrote: > Sorry, but I do not have > /etc/cron.daily/mlocate.cron This is all part of the systemd fungus experience as it attempts to engulph all of linux. An rpm -q --list mlocate shows these files on my fedora 24 system: /usr/lib/systemd/system

Re: anacron/cron

2016-09-19 Thread Patrick Dupre
ue, France === > Sent: Monday, September 19, 2016 at 8:37 PM > From: "Jon LaBadie" > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Subject: Re: anacron/cron > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:42:42AM +0200, Patrick Dupre w

Re: anacron/cron

2016-09-19 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:42:42AM +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > ... > > 3) systemctl | grep -i locate > provides not answer. > How can I check that mlocate run properly ? > There is not service locate or mlocate locate does not run as a service. locate's database is updated daily via

Re: anacron/cron

2016-09-19 Thread Patrick Dupre
8 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44 189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France === > > On 09/19/2016 05:42 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > Hello, > > > > 1) In fc22, ana

Re: anacron/cron

2016-09-19 Thread Mark C. Allman
On 09/19/2016 05:42 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > 1) In fc22, anacron (and crond) sent mail to root every time that it > was running. How can I recover this function with fc24 ? > > 2) Now, anacron and cron work. However, I have > in /etc/crontab > 22 23 *

Re: anacron/cron

2016-09-19 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello,   Thank for the suggestion. But, are you sure? I would like to keep running anacron on a machine which does not run permanently !   === Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdu...@gmx.com Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de

Re: anacron/cron

2016-09-19 Thread Brian Millett
Install cronie-noanacron then remove cronie-anacron. Anacron should not be setup for servers, but is good for a laptop. On Mon, 2016-09-19 at 11:42 +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > 1) In fc22, anacron (and crond) sent mail to root every time that it > was running. How can I

Re: anacron/cron

2016-09-19 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, 1) In fc22, anacron (and crond) sent mail to root every time that it was running. How can I recover this function with fc24 ? 2) Now, anacron and cron work. However, I have in /etc/crontab 22 23 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily 06 13 * * 6 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly and in /ect

Re: Anacron mail -

2016-09-18 Thread Boris Epstein
Have you considered installing something like IMAP on that machine to make mail more convenient to read? Boris. On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > I have been using Linux for a long time and have yet to see a cron/anacron > mail message. > > In [root@Box10

Anacron mail -

2016-09-17 Thread Bob Goodwin
I have been using Linux for a long time and have yet to see a cron/anacron mail message. In [root@Box10 bobg]# cat /etc/aliases I configured: # Person who should get root's mail root:bobg And after a bit of googling I dnf installed mail. Mail is difficult to use, has a long li

Re: anacron/cron

2016-09-17 Thread Mark C. Allman
On 09/17/2016 07:51 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > In my mailbox, I receive emails: Anacron job 'cron.weekly' on > While I do not receive any amail: > Anacron job 'cron.daily' on > > while it should run daily: > logrotate > certwatch &g

anacron/cron

2016-09-17 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, In my mailbox, I receive emails: Anacron job 'cron.weekly' on While I do not receive any amail: Anacron job 'cron.daily' on while it should run daily: logrotate certwatch It even more strange, on a fc22 machine I had Anacron job 'cron.daily' on until July

Where does anacron config sendmail?

2014-01-19 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Still working on cron without sendmail. I am learning some as I peel the onion. The latest error message is: Jan 19 16:21:23 lx120e.htt-consult.com run-parts[22838]: (/etc/cron.daily) finished prelink Jan 19 16:21:23 lx120e.htt-consult.com anacron[10446]: Job `cron.daily' termi

Re: is cronie-anacron a package requirement for cronie or not?

2014-01-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/02/2014 08:13 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: not at some random inconvenient time anacron picks using the artificial intelligence algorithm it apparently has to maximize inconvenience :-). It sounds like anacron is using the same form of AI that a first-person shooter I like (Joint Operations

Re: is cronie-anacron a package requirement for cronie or not?

2014-01-02 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 10:25:33 -0500 (EST) Robert P. J. Day wrote: > normally, i'd interpret that to mean that i can remove that package > independently of anything else. I gave up trying to make anacron go away in any sensible fashion. I just use a "big hammer" to clobber a

Re: is cronie-anacron a package requirement for cronie or not?

2014-01-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 2 Jan 2014, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 10:25:33 -0500, > "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > > > > predictably, cronie-anacron requires cronie, that part's easy. > >however, if i check to see what "requires" cronie-anacr

Re: is cronie-anacron a package requirement for cronie or not?

2014-01-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 10:25:33 -0500, "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: predictably, cronie-anacron requires cronie, that part's easy. however, if i check to see what "requires" cronie-anacron on my fedora 20 system, i see: # rpm -q --whatrequires cronie-anacron n

is cronie-anacron a package requirement for cronie or not?

2014-01-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
slowly getting back to speed on my fedora stuff and i'm a bit puzzled about the dependency relationship between the packages cronie and cronie-anacron. predictably, cronie-anacron requires cronie, that part's easy. however, if i check to see what "requires" cronie-ana

Re: No anacron emails

2010-11-18 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/18/2010 11:34 AM, Steven Stern wrote: > On 11/18/2010 10:20 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> On this F12 server, my /etc/anacrontab is rather simple: >> >> SHELL=/bin/sh >> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin >> MAILTO=root >> # the maximal random delay added to the base delay of the jobs

Re: No anacron emails

2010-11-18 Thread Steven Stern
gt; Nov 18 11:01:01 homebase run-parts(/etc/cron.hourly)[11128]: starting > 0anacron > Nov 18 11:01:01 homebase anacron[11138]: Anacron started on 2010-11-18 > Nov 18 11:01:01 homebase run-parts(/etc/cron.hourly)[11140]: finished > 0anacron > Nov 18 11:01:01 homebase anacron[11138

No anacron emails

2010-11-18 Thread Robert Moskowitz
;t see any line there for the hourly, but them run. For /var/log/cron: Nov 18 11:01:01 homebase CROND[11128]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly) Nov 18 11:01:01 homebase run-parts(/etc/cron.hourly)[11128]: starting 0anacron Nov 18 11:01:01 homebase anacron[11138]: Anacron started on 2010-11

RE: anacron broken after upgrade from 13 to 14 [Solved]

2010-11-15 Thread Alan J. Gagne
A new crontabs package was released that fixed this problem. crontabs-1.11-1.2010git.fc14.noarch Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.or

RE: anacron broken after upgrade from 13 to 14

2010-11-14 Thread Alan J. Gagne
After seeing this bug, I checked on my cron jobs and found they were not working either. After a bit of investigation I found the crontabs problem: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=653132 Work around: Find any crontab that is using run-parts and make sure you add a trailing / to the d

Re: anacron broken after upgrade from 13 to 14

2010-11-14 Thread Tom Horsley
After seeing this bug, I checked on my cron jobs and found they were not working either. After a bit of investigation I found the crontabs problem: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=653132 Work around: Find any crontab that is using run-parts and make sure you add a trailing / to the di

RE: anacron broken after upgrade from 13 to 14

2010-11-14 Thread Alan J. Gagne
>/ None of the daily or weekly jobs have run since upgrading to fedora 14. />/ Jobs in /etc/cron.d are working (denyhosts,sa-update,lmsensor_charts). / I go to a lot of trouble to disable anacron, so I've had to discover how it is enabled in order to disable it. It starts with

Re: anacron broken after upgrade from 13 to 14

2010-11-14 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 09:34:05 -0500 Alan J. Gagne wrote: > None of the daily or weekly jobs have run since upgrading to fedora 14. > Jobs in /etc/cron.d are working (denyhosts,sa-update,lmsensor_charts). I go to a lot of trouble to disable anacron, so I've had to discover how it is

Re: anacron broken after upgrade from 13 to 14

2010-11-14 Thread Steven Stern
On 11/14/2010 08:34 AM, Alan J. Gagne wrote: >> None of the daily or weekly jobs have run since upgrading to fedora 14. >> Jobs in /etc/cron.d are working (denyhosts,sa-update,lmsensor_charts). >> >> I am waiting to see if the daily/weekly jobs run after manually

RE: anacron broken after upgrade from 13 to 14

2010-11-14 Thread Alan J. Gagne
> None of the daily or weekly jobs have run since upgrading to fedora 14. > Jobs in /etc/cron.d are working (denyhosts,sa-update,lmsensor_charts). > > I am waiting to see if the daily/weekly jobs run after manually > executing anacron by > running /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron >

anacron broken after upgrade from 13 to 14

2010-11-14 Thread Alan J. Gagne
None of the daily or weekly jobs have run since upgrading to fedora 14. Jobs in /etc/cron.d are working (denyhosts,sa-update,lmsensor_charts). I am waiting to see if the daily/weekly jobs run after manually executing anacron by running /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron [linux0]# uname -r 2.6.35.6-48

Re: Sudden failure of anacron job 'cron.daily'

2010-08-06 Thread Alexander Volovics
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 07:23:54AM -0500, inode0 wrote: > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:07 AM, Alexander Volovics > wrote: > > Has anyone had this problem after the latest updates. > > > > /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch: > > > > Can't exec "sendmail": Permission denied at /usr/sbin/logwatch line > > 1032,

Re: Sudden failure of anacron job 'cron.daily'

2010-08-06 Thread inode0
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:07 AM, Alexander Volovics wrote: > Hello > > Has anyone had this problem after the latest updates. > I still get the report: > > /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch: > > Can't exec "sendmail": Permission denied at /usr/sbin/logwatch line > 1032, > + line 2. > Can't execute sendmail

Re: Sudden failure of anacron job 'cron.daily'

2010-08-06 Thread Frank Murphy
On 06/08/10 11:07, Alexander Volovics wrote: No what selinux-policy do you have? -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded Friend of Fedora -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users G

Sudden failure of anacron job 'cron.daily'

2010-08-06 Thread Alexander Volovics
Hello Has anyone had this problem after the latest updates. I still get the report: /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch: Can't exec "sendmail": Permission denied at /usr/sbin/logwatch line 1032, + line 2. Can't execute sendmail -t: Permission denied Alexander -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorapro

Re: anacron question

2010-05-17 Thread David Bartmess
On 5/17/2010 12:57 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 17 May 2010 13:08:00 -0500 > Robert Nichols wrote: > > >> In F12 as distributed, anacron is started once an hour by crond >> > How does cron do that? Does it "just know" that it should run > t

Re: anacron question

2010-05-17 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 17 May 2010 14:57:48 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote: > How does cron do that? Does it "just know" that it should run > the hourly jobs? The /etc/crontab shipped with f12 has nothing > but comments in it... OK, I finally found /etc/cron.d/0hourly. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: anacron question

2010-05-17 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 17 May 2010 13:08:00 -0500 Robert Nichols wrote: > In F12 as distributed, anacron is started once an hour by crond How does cron do that? Does it "just know" that it should run the hourly jobs? The /etc/crontab shipped with f12 has nothing but comments in it... -- users

Re: anacron question

2010-05-17 Thread Robert Nichols
On 05/17/2010 08:52 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 17 May 2010 15:28:51 +0200 > Frank Elsner wrote: > >> Is from FC6 but should be same on F12: > > Perhaps it should be the same, but in fact it isn't > even remotely the same. All the anacron and cron stuff > has b

Re: anacron question

2010-05-17 Thread Athmane Madjoudj
On 05/17/2010 02:08 PM, Joachim Backes wrote: > Hi, can somebody tell me when during boot anacron is started, and where > the startscript is located (F12)? > > All comments are welcome. > > Kind regards > > Joachim Backes > > http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes >

Re: anacron question

2010-05-17 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 17 May 2010 15:28:51 +0200 Frank Elsner wrote: > Is from FC6 but should be same on F12: Perhaps it should be the same, but in fact it isn't even remotely the same. All the anacron and cron stuff has been completely rejiggered in f12. I've been able to completely disable

Re: anacron question

2010-05-17 Thread Frank Elsner
On Mon, 17 May 2010 15:08:54 +0200 Joachim Backes wrote: > Hi, can somebody tell me when during boot anacron is started, and where > the startscript is located (F12)? > > All comments are welcome. Is from FC6 but should be same on F12: /etc/anacrontab /etc/cron.daily/0anacron /etc/

anacron question

2010-05-17 Thread Joachim Backes
Hi, can somebody tell me when during boot anacron is started, and where the startscript is located (F12)? All comments are welcome. Kind regards Joachim Backes http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- users mailing list users