On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 2:07 PM Frank Steinmetzger <war...@gmx.de> wrote: > > Am Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 01:41:33PM -0500 schrieb Rich Freeman: > > On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 1:21 PM Frank Steinmetzger <war...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > > > > > I don't use this, but I believe there should be an hourly crontab > > entry that deletes the cron.hourly file, which would mean it gets run > > on the next 10min cycle (or maybe sooner - I'm not sure if those jobs > > are run in parallel or serial). > > The check that I mentioned above is actually the deletion which you mention: > run-crons looks for the state file for the given interval and - if it is old > enough - deletes it.
The check I'm talking about isn't in run-crons at all. It is in /etc/crontab. It doesn't look at the age of the file and unconditionally deletes it every hour: 59 * * * * rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly -- Rich
