I have been faced with similar uptime issues on my machine, but solved it more cleanly.
Once Anacron is doing its thing cron leaves it alone. Once anacron is done cron resumes normal operation. It uses the pgrep utility from the required procps package for that so no extra dependancy. --- crontab.dpkg-dist 2006-12-20 01:02:42.000000000 +0100 +++ crontab 2008-02-15 08:34:43.000000000 +0100 @@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ # m h dom mon dow user command 17 * * * * root cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly -25 6 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily ) -47 6 * * 7 root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly ) -52 6 1 * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly ) +25 6 * * * root pgrep anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily ) +47 6 * * 7 root pgrep anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly ) +52 6 1 * * root pgrep anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly ) # Regards, Jaap -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
