Thanks. Every looks fine. My point is that both anacron and crond run on a weekly basis, while I only need anacron. > > On my machine, I have crond and anacron running. > > I guess that I do not need crond. > > I can easily manage crond, but waht about anacron? > > > > systemctl status anacron > > Unit anacron.service could not be found > > systemctl status anacrond > > Unit anacrond.service could not be found > > > > while > > systemctl status crond > > ● crond.service - Command Scheduler > > Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/crond.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) > > Active: active (running) since Sun 2019-09-22 09:09:21 CEST; 3h 5min ago > > Main PID: 1429 (crond) > > Tasks: 7 (limit: 4915) > > Memory: 4.3G > > CGroup: /system.slice/crond.service > > ├─ 1429 /usr/sbin/crond -n > > ├─ 8113 /usr/sbin/anacron -s > > ├─10084 /usr/bin/bash /bin/run-parts /etc/cron.weekly > > ├─10088 /bin/sh /etc/cron.weekly/backup.cron > > > > > > It seems that anacron is a service of crond. > > > > Is the only option to remove crontabs? > > If you were to look at the file /lib/systemd/system/crond.service you'd see that it only starts crond. > > Then, you would look at the various system cron directories and find that /etc/cron.hourly contains 0anacron. > > Then you'd check /etc/anacrontab to see that it is responsible for running "run-parts" when the criteria is met. cat /etc/anacrontab #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 > anacron should exit when those jobs are complete. > > If those jobs aren't completing you have another issue. > You should see entries along these lines in the journal. > > Sep 22 03:01:01 meimei.greshko.com run-parts[22266]: (/etc/cron.hourly) starting 0anacron > Sep 22 03:01:01 meimei.greshko.com anacron[22272]: Anacron started on 2019-09-22 > Sep 22 03:01:01 meimei.greshko.com anacron[22272]: Will run job `cron.daily' in 37 min. > Sep 22 03:01:01 meimei.greshko.com anacron[22272]: Will run job `cron.weekly' in 57 min. > Sep 22 03:01:01 meimei.greshko.com anacron[22272]: Jobs will be executed sequentially > Sep 22 03:01:01 meimei.greshko.com run-parts[22274]: (/etc/cron.hourly) finished 0anacron > Sep 22 03:38:01 meimei.greshko.com anacron[22272]: Job `cron.daily' started > Sep 22 03:38:01 meimei.greshko.com anacron[22272]: Job `cron.daily' terminated > Sep 22 03:58:01 meimei.greshko.com anacron[22272]: Job `cron.weekly' started > Sep 22 03:58:08 meimei.greshko.com anacron[22272]: Job `cron.weekly' terminated > Sep 22 03:58:08 meimei.greshko.com anacron[22272]: Normal exit (2 jobs run) > Sep 22 04:01:01 meimei.greshko.com run-parts[23286]: (/etc/cron.hourly) starting 0anacron > Sep 22 04:01:01 meimei.greshko.com run-parts[23292]: (/etc/cron.hourly) finished 0anacron > > Notice that the anacron introduces a "random" delay to start run-parts. So, you may see anacron "running" for a while until all the processes it is responsible for starting have finished. So, looking at the above I would have seen anacron running on my system from 03:01:01 until 03:58:08 > > -- > If simple questions can be answered with a simple google query then why are there so many of them? > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
