Stop anacron?
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Wed Dec 26 17:55:30 UTC 2007
Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Ed Greshko wrote:
>> John Cornelius wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Anacron is only supposed to run jobs that were supposed to be run by
>>> cron but were not for some reason. There may be a configuration error in
>>> /etc/anacrontab.
>>>
>>
>> Which is kind of why I'm wondering why some folks seem to be having
>> problems
>> in this area.
>>
>> I run F8 as a Vmware guest and it can be days before I run F8 and I never
>> see any of the issues that are raised. Just doesn't happen. I don't get
>> multiple runs of cron jobs.
>>
>>
>
> Do you boot F8 at 03:00 with anacron enabled? If you do Cron
> will run at 04:02 [perhaps] and then about an hour later Anacron
> will run, and both will be logged. This problem has persisted
> through several Fedora distributions in the default condition.
I can't say that I've booted my F8 system at 03:00. If I did, then I think
there is a whole different set of problems that need to be addressed...none
of them related to linux...if you know what I mean. :-)
> There may be something I need to set to stop anacron if cron has
> already run but I have not found it. As I said it's a very
> minor annoyance, I just thought there might be a fix that others
> were aware of.
Yeah. I get the feeling the problem is about at the same level as my random
sig has just picked.
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