On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 07:26:18PM +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote:
Hello,
I am a bit surprise by the answers that I received. Again, cron and anacron used to run quite well for a long time. Both can co-live, one run periodically according to /etc/crontab and /etc/cron.daily /etc/cron.weekly, etc... and anacron could make the relay, in case that the machine was turned off. Why give up this logic?
Now, we have /etc/crond.d with 0hourly raid-check /etc/cron.hourly with 0anacron
/etc/cron.daily/ seems to be ignored
Where is the logic?
I'm not sure where your and my systems differ. But on mine, cron.daily is certainly NOT ignored. I get daily logwatch reports from there and my locate database is updated from there.
In fact, since I learned about the systemD mechanism for daily updates of the locate database, I activated it to see the effect and I'm getting twice daily updates.
The crond manpage says it reads /etc/anacrontab. It is from there that daily/weekly/monthly get executed.
Jon