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On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 04:15:04PM -0500, John Jolet wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 17:11 -0400, Matt Randolph wrote: |
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> > I have a script in /etc/cron.daily that never runs. It works properly |
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> > when run manually and it's been in there for weeks (and a reboot or two). |
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> > |
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> > I'm using vixie-cron. |
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> cron.daily doesn't get run from cron. gets run out of anacron....do you |
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> have anacron installed? |
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I am not quite sure that is correct. |
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I run vixie-cron on my desktop machine, and /etc/crontab, which |
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vixie-cron respects, has by default the following in it: |
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====snip of /etc/crontab==== |
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# check scripts in cron.hourly, cron.daily, cron.weekly and |
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# cron.monthly |
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0 * * * * root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly |
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1 3 * * * root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily |
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15 4 * * 6 root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.weekly |
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30 5 1 * * root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.monthly |
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*/10 * * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons |
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====end snip==== |
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and if you read /usr/sbin/run-crons (just a shell script) you'd see |
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that it runs the jobs in /etc/cron.$BASE |
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Now, it could be quite possible that the OPs system doesn't have such |
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in /etc/crontab, or it could be missing /usr/sbin/run-crons, in which |
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case the cron.* directory will not get executed. But AFAIK, a default |
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gentoo installation of vixie-cron should respect the /etc/cron.* |
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