Jason Towell <jtowell@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi Alex, > > I think in a default configuration crond handles hourly and runs anacron to handle the daily, weekly, etc. I was having trouble running a daily until I realized my cron.daily shell script environment path did not include /usr/local/bin. Placing the full path to my perl script fixed the issue. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alex Ferrando" <alferpal@xxxxxxxxx> > To: "General Discussion about Arch Linux" <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 9:05:56 AM > Subject: Re: [arch-general] System Cron jobs not running > > Maybe I'm getting it wrong, but is dcron the one that runs the > cron.hourly/daily and so on folders as the crontab in the wiki with > reference to that default crontab for dcron, not cronie > > On Fri 21 Oct 2011 05:55:33 PM CEST, R7h0re4 wrote: >> Karol Blazewicz<karol.blazewicz@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 3:54 AM, R7h0re4<r7h0re4@xxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> <snip> >>>> >>> >>> Are you using cronie, dcron or some other cron? cronie provides anacron. >> >> I do have Cronie installed but I am still wondering why the script won't >> run if put in the weekly cron folder. My understanding is the >> documentation is a little week concerning this topic on the Wiki. Do I >> need to fill a bug report, or is something out of place. >> >> R7h0re4 >> >> > Just to be safe I added the full path to my script for the commands it is calling. I also looked at the wiki again and nothing mentions the use of Cronie, and system cron jobs. I also checked the file /var/spool and see anacron which has the sub directories. I would almost say this wiki needs some updating and would assist once we get it working. R7h0re4
