Cron Monthly abnormality in FC12

[Simon Andrews]

Mikkel wrote:
> I ran into something strange with cron in FC12. The monthly cron
> jobs ran on December 2nd, instead of December 1st. The system was up
> continually from before November 30th, until after December 2nd. But
> for some strange reason the monthly jobs were run on the 2nd.
> 
> This is a problem because the system sends out calendars on the 1st
> of each month, and sending them out on the second is a real problem.

The anacron (which is what runs cron.monthly) README file says:

"Anacron is not an attempt to make cron redundant.  It cannot currently 
be used to schedule commands at intervals smaller than days.  It also 
does not guarantee than the commands will be executed at any specific 
day or hour"

..and later

"Jobs for which the timing is critical should probably not be controlled 
by anacron"

I'd suggest you remove this job from cron.monthly and put an explicit 
entry into /etc/crontab which delivers your calendars on the first of 
the month.

Simon.