On Saturday 01 May 2004 8:18 pm, you wrote: > Thanks for your reply to my message.
No problem. > >> but I strongly advise you to install anacron. > > anacron is installed. The problem's with the crontab entries, which > don't do anything if anacron's installed (see my original message for > an example). > > My inclination is to delete anacron (barring the occasional power > failure, my systems are always running), but I want to know if this > is going to come back and bite me, much as having anacron installed > has apparently bitten me already. I'm no guru (you'd noticed? :) ) but I believe there is no reason to have anacron installed if you intend to run your systems non-stop. As far as I can see, it runs only on start-up (there is a script in /etc/init.d that runs it, if anacron can be found in /usr/sbin). Since cron is installed as (I think) a base package, and anacron is only rated as optional, I think you should just remove anacron. Although I am surprised if it actually prevents cron from running (some of?) its jobs, clearly this does seem to be the case. I think you should just go ahead and remove it. Cheers, Geoff PS. I'm replying on-list, in case I am wrong here. But I'm fairly confident I'm not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
