-- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com > On May 6, 2018, at 05:10, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard > <j.deboynepollard-newsgro...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > John Cunningham: > >> I hate to wade into the pool of systemd hate, but is this systemd's fault? I >> noticed anacron doesn't exist on this system. Is it supposed to anymore? Or >> is that one of the things that have been deprecated? If so, how are the >> /etc/cron.daily jobs getting run these days? >> > You'll have to check the timeframe of when these changes happened with > respect to Debian 8, but a Debian 9 system does not use cron to run anacron > and various other things like phpsessionclean, nor use anacron itself to run > various further things. You'll find [ ! -d /run/systemd/system ] in various > places in Debian Linux nowadays that turns stuff off when systemd is running, > as well as reliance on the fact that systemd ignores non-native stuff if it > has native stuff of the same name (such as anacron.timer). > > * https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/438379/5132
Thanks for the pointer, particularly here... > > * https://sources.debian.org/src/anacron/2.3-24/debian/anacron.timer/ > > * https://sources.debian.org/src/apt/1.6.1/debian/apt.apt-compat.cron.daily/ > > * https://sources.debian.org/src/man-db/2.8.3-2/debian/cron.daily/ > > Moreover, you will find the similar [ -x /usr/sbin/anacron ] in various > places to control what happens when anacron is not installed. > > * https://sources.debian.org/src/cron/3.0pl1-130/debian/crontab.main/ > > So bear in mind that your learned ideas about what runs what are no longer > true. >
