logwatch schedule control

[Steve Blackwell]

On Wed, 12 May 2010 15:31:07 -0700
jack craig <jcraig at extraview.com> wrote:

> 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).
> >    
> 

Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacron  for a brief explanation
of anacron.

Steve