Chron curiosity

[Reindl Harald]

Am 28.06.2013 21:41, schrieb Tom Horsley:
> On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 12:25:02 -0700
> Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> 
>> Look at the top of /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron
> 
> Speaking of anacron, you may want to eradicate all the
> anacron junk if you actually want jobs to run at the
> times you specified rather than at random times
> anacron picks to be as inconvenient as possible

*no* you can configure it to *not* use random times
and then you can be sure that the system is aware
that a job did run

the random-default is perfectly for most environments
especially if you are in the world of virtualization
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# /etc/anacrontab: configuration file for anacron
# See anacron(8) and anacrontab(5) for details.

SHELL=/usr/bin/bash
PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root

# the maximal random delay added to the base delay of the jobs
RANDOM_DELAY=5

# the jobs will be started during the following hours only
START_HOURS_RANGE=0-12

#period in days   delay in minutes   job-identifier   command
1                 5                  cron.daily       nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.daily
7                 25                 cron.weekly      nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
@monthly          45                 cron.monthly     nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.monthly

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