=========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre@xxxxxxx Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | | Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | | Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44 189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France =========================================================================== > Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 7:14 AM > From: "Jon LaBadie" <jonfu@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: cron > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 07:26:18PM +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am a bit surprise by the answers that I received. > > Again, cron and anacron used to run quite well for a long time. > > Both can co-live, one run periodically according to /etc/crontab > > and /etc/cron.daily /etc/cron.weekly, etc... > > and anacron could make the relay, in case that the machine was > > turned off. > > Why give up this logic? > > > > Now, we have > > /etc/crond.d with > > 0hourly > > raid-check > > /etc/cron.hourly with > > 0anacron > > > > /etc/cron.daily/ > > seems to be ignored > > > > > > Where is the logic? > > I'm not sure where your and my systems differ. But on mine, > cron.daily is certainly NOT ignored. I get daily logwatch > reports from there and my locate database is updated from > there. > > In fact, since I learned about the systemD mechanism for > daily updates of the locate database, I activated it to > see the effect and I'm getting twice daily updates. > > The crond manpage says it reads /etc/anacrontab. It is > from there that daily/weekly/monthly get executed. This was correct with fc22, but sine I updated in fc24. The behavior is not correct. cf. anacron weakly is supposed to run on saturday, it run on Monday now ! Same thing for cron ! It is why I am complaining. And I cannot get any explanation why the behavior of my machine has changed after the update while the configuration files /etc/anacrontab and /etc/crontab did not change > Jon > -- > Jon H. LaBadie jonfu@xxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
