Re: anacron/cron

[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 --list mlocate shows these files on my fedora 24
> system:
>
> /usr/lib/systemd/system/mlocate-updatedb.service
> /usr/lib/systemd/system/mlocate-updatedb.timer
>
> So it is now running on a systemd timer, not in cron
> (this helps make sure no one has any idea what the heck
> is going on).

You left out one of the systemd unit files for mlocate:

/var/lib/systemd/timers/stamp-mlocate-updatedb.timer

That might tell you all you need to know.
Oh, wait, that's an empty file.

jl