Fedora 22 - syslog rotating but old files being updated! - SOLVED but still weird . .

[Ed Greshko]

On 07/02/15 22:19, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Jul 2015 23:45:38 +1000
> Philip Rhoades wrote:
>
>> and there is nothing in crontab with a 3:25am on it . . what is going 
>> on?
> You have no doubt encountered the wonders of anacron, which, instead of running
> things when you want them run, runs them at some random time.
>
> You used to be able to just remove anacron from your system, but now
> it has been improved so much that it is tightly integrated.
>
> You have to move everything from /etc/anacrontab to /etc/crontab
> (and reformat it properly since they aren't the same syntax), then
> to really make sure you drive a stake through its heart, cat /dev/null
> to each of /etc/cron.d/0hourly /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron /etc/anacrontab
> (and repeat following every update in case an update reinstalls them :-).

Can't you just set all the delay parameters to 0?

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