No anacron emails

[Steven Stern]

On 11/18/2010 10:20 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
There was an update to the crontabs rpm that broke cron.hourly and
another one that fixed it.  Make sure you're on the most recent version
of the crontabs package.  (For F14, it's
crontabs-1.11-1.20101115git.fc14.noarch)

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-- Steve