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?
man anacron does a good job describing the functions. /etc/anacrontab contains the default config.
Being new to linux, I had to apt-get install anacron after weeks of attempting to find a better way of allowing cron to do its work; I was manually editing /etc/crontab each day when I booted up. My linux gurus didn't know what to do with me because they ran their boxes all the time.
apt-get install anacron automatically set up everything. I didn't have to touch a thing. Just read the docs first. I was very surprised to see anacron running the scripts automatically 5 minutes after I installed it, but that's exactly what was supposed to happen.
Regards, Ralph
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