David selby wrote:
Hello mate,Not sure if anyone is still looking at this thread, above plan failed !
Ive been quiet for a couple of days, trying things & looking for the results next morning, found out a few things .. think I have cracked it.
/etc/cron.d/anacron & /etc/anacrontab are not duplicate .... I found this by accident.
/etc/cron.d/anacron is the system crontab /etc/anacrontab is the users crontab !
Once I moved my times around, I have
/etc/anacrontab, the user crontab, at 1:05am calling mozilla mail (without a & at the end !), So till I kill it I assume it is keeping crontab running.
/etc/cron.d/anacron, the system crontab, at 1:30am calling an auto backup script, last 5-10 mins
I get mail at 1:30am, QED !
I have made mozilla mail run with a &, ie background ... will see what happens tonight
Dave
/etc/cron.d/anacron start, produces ...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /etc/init.d/anacron start Starting anac(h)ronistic cron: anacron. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
which is my system e-mail, so my guess is when I changed MAILTO=web I just started getting it.
Now changing /etc/cron.d/anacron to ...
# /etc/anacron: crontab entries for the anacron package
SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=web
30 1 * * * root test -x /etc/init.d/anacron && /etc/init.d/anacron start >/dev/n
ull
Will see how it goes ...
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