logwatch schedule control

jack craig jcraig at extraview.com
Wed May 12 22:31:07 UTC 2010


AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGggggggggggggg!

No wonder i couldnt find the control, its out of control!!!

Thx Tom!

On 05/12/2010 03:03 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Wed, 12 May 2010 14:33:18 -0700
> jack craig wrote:
>
>    
>> I am assuming its whatever drives /etc/cron.daily, but where???
>>      
> You are suffering from anacron's disease :-).
>
> In recent fedoras all the default /etc/cron.* jobs are now driven
> by anacron from the /etc/anacrontab file and the old /etc/crontab
> file is empty by default. Anacron just runs things at some random
> time when it happens to think of it, which drives me crazy (because
> it always manages to pick a inappropriate time due to Murphy's
> Law).
>
> I move all the entries out of /etc/anacrontab, given them specific
> times to run, and format them to go in the /etc/crontab file.
> I run nothing in anacron (and every release it gets harder and
> harder to turn it off).
>    

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Jack Craig
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