cron.hourly/daily/weekly/etc. in rawhide

[Marcela Maslanova]

Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 01:53 +0200, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
>> On 02/18/2009 01:26 AM, Mike Chambers wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 10:00 +0100, Marcela Maslanova wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>> The cron daemon is running every hour anacron, which checks whether run 
>>>> cron.{daily,weekly,...} now or not. The setting is stored in 
>>>> /etc/anacrontab where is also possible create random delay. The jobs 
>>>> should be executed as before for usual user on desktop.
>>>>
>>>> I know on servers people often don't use anacron at all because they 
>>>> want to run daily jobs in some time range. This could be now also set in 
>>>> anacrontab. This is discussed here #481775.
>>>>     
>>> Ok, I knew and understood anacron is for running cron jobs that missed
>>> their scheduling for various reasons?  I only asked about anacrontab
>>> because that is the only setting config file I could find that was close
>>> enough to configuring crontab.
>>>
>>> Soooo, I guess what I am trying to ask, is if I want my cron.daily to
>>> run at 3:25 every morning, what/where is the file that I set that for?
>>> Because currently my cron.daily (after a fresh install from few days
>>> ago) runs at 4:xxam and I don't know what is making it run at that time
>>> very morning like it used to be.
>>>   
>> It seems that /etc/anacrontab is the new config file for botn cron and 
>> anacron. Quite confusing, to be honest, I would have expected at least 
>> the other way around (have anacron read from /etc/crontab ). But then 
>> again, maybe I am wrong...
Well the jobs like cron.{daily, weekly,...} were always in anacrontab 
and crontab, which leads to running them twice or more, which was solved 
by ugly hacks. Now are jobs started only from anacrontab. You can still 
remove jobs from anacrontab and run them from crontab, if you wish.
> 
> I also see /etc/cron.d dir and wonder if putting in a file, like 0hourly
> is in there currently, and setting it that way for specific times/dates?
> 
I'm not sure what you are asking here. 0hourly run the first minute of 
hour anacron and anacron checks whether it has to run daily jobs or not.

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Marcela Mašláňová
BaseOS team Brno