Hello James,
On Mon, 2 Jul 2018 11:31:07 +0000 James Pearson <james-p@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> wwp wrote:
>
> >
> > On Mon, 02 Jul 2018 09:59:17 +0100 Pete Biggs <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >>>
> >>> So, service is running but what could happen that makes /etc/cron.* not
> >>> being fired?
> >>
> >> You don't say, but if this is CentOS 7, then cron.daily/weekly/monthly
> >> is run using anacron, not cron.
> >
> > Oops, yes CentOS 7, sorry.
> >
> > For the record:
> > # service anacron status
> > Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status anacron.service
> > Unit anacron.service could not be found.
> > You have mail in /var/spool/mail/root
> >
> > Sure, anacron is not installed. So how could stuff in /etc/cron.{daily,weekly}
> > work until June 02?
> > Probably because it didn't need anacron at all, no? I've looked at yum
> > history, it doesn't talk at all about anacron (but cronie-anacron) so
> > it's not been installed and removed).
>
> anacron is part of the cronie-anacron package
>
> There is no anacron service file ... anacron is run by cron - see below:
Oh-oh, thanks for your lights.
> >> It's configured in /etc/anacrontab and is usually run once a day by the
> >> script /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron - cron.hourly is still run by cron.
> >> If the script doesn't exist, then anacron won't run and cron.daily etc
> >> won't happen.
> >
> > There's a /etc/cron.d/0hourly here:
> > -------------
> > # Run the hourly jobs
> > SHELL=/bin/bash
> > PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> > MAILTO=root
> > 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
> > -------------
> >
> > I'm still not sure that talking about anacron is relevant here, and I
> > don't know why either if you say it should be anacron in CentOS 7.
>
> grep for anacron in /var/log/cron* for any clues
Hah!
Log excerpts, something that may matter but that I missed at first:
anacron[22814]: Job `cron.daily' locked by another anacron - skipping
Don't know exactly what went wrong there, but I killed a few processes
and I'll see how it behaves naturally this night, if it still fails I
know have enough to observe, understand and fix. I think you helped me
understanding few things here and how to fix it, thanks, James and Pete!
Regards,
--
wwp
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