On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 00:47, Nicolas Turro wrote: > chkconfig tells me that both cron and anacron services are active > do the same jobs are performed twice ? > > In fact /etc/rc.d/init.d/anacron status > gives me : > anacron dead but subsys locked > > no anacron deamon is runnig... > > Can someone explain me what i am missing ? anacron is only used at startup to run cronjobs that should have executed but didn't due to downtime. Read the man page for anacron as well as the script being called at startup. Ed -- http://www.shorewall.net Shorewall, for all your firewall needs -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list