cron.weekly

[Jerry Feldman]

On 12/14/2008 09:30 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:18:50 +0000 (GMT)
> Patrick Dupre wrote:
>
>   
>> If crond was interrupted for some reasons, does anacron would restart it
>> at 12:11 ?
>>     
>
> I can't for the life of me figure out when anacron decides to do what,
> I just know that things are less confusing without it :-).
>
>   
Admittedly I'm coming in a bit late on this, but I've had a similar 
issue with cron.daily and anacron. I changed my /etc/crontab to run 
cron.daily at 2 minutes after 1.
02 1 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
22 1 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly

All well and good.

But, I saw that anacron ran daily at 6PMlast night.
-rw-------  1 root root    9 2008-12-19 18:26 cron.daily

However, my system had frozen up sometime after 7:50AM.

Previously I had manually updated /var/spool/anacron/cron.daily by 
manually editing the date in the time, and setting the timestamp with 
touch. However, I did not see the file updated from the time I set it 
until 6PM last night.
Actually, the 0anacron entry in /etc/cron.daily starts with:
#!/bin/bash
# wait for 3:02 when /etc/crontab runs cron.daily
if [ `date +%H` -le 4 ]; then
    exit 0;
fi
This would explain why it is not working properly for both me and the OP.

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