I've discovered that cron.daily isn't being run (the locate database is 8 days old (I ran updatedb manually at one point), /usr/lib/man-cb/mandb hasn't been updated since 15 August 2003, and so on). The command for daily in /etc/crontab is
test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --verbose /etc/cron.daily which, to my eyes, checks for /usr/sbin/anacron and, if it exists (which it does), does nothing; it's only when /usr/sbin/anacron doesn't exist that /etc/cron.daily runs. Because I can't figure out how anacron gets run (there's no crontab entry I can find), this strikes me as wrong, but maybe I just don't understand. Does anybody know what the story is here and, more importantly, how I can get daily cron jobs back (as well as weekly and monthly jobs, because their commands are of the same form)? Of course, I could just uninstall anacron (or rewrite crontab), but is that recommended? If not, what is? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
