No anacron emails

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Thu Nov 18 16:20:01 UTC 2010


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
RANDOM_DELAY=45
# the jobs will be started during the following hours only
START_HOURS_RANGE=3-22

#period in days   delay in minutes   job-identifier   command
1    5    cron.daily        nice run-parts /etc/cron.daily
7    25    cron.weekly        nice run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
@monthly 45    cron.monthly        nice run-parts /etc/cron.monthly

You would think I would get emails but I don't I don'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 2010-11-18
Nov 18 11:01:01 homebase run-parts(/etc/cron.hourly)[11140]: finished 
0anacron
Nov 18 11:01:01 homebase anacron[11138]: Normal exit (0 jobs run)
Nov 18 11:01:01 homebase run-parts(/etc/cron.hourly)[11128]: starting 
hda-update
Nov 18 11:03:10 homebase run-parts(/etc/cron.hourly)[11160]: finished 
hda-update




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