updatedb every morning at 6.30am

Yannick Le Saint (kyncani) y.lesaint at gmail.com
Wed Aug 3 14:40:28 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 02:02 -0400, Corey Bettenhausen wrote:
> Sean Miller wrote:
> That is run by cron.daily.  See /etc/cron.daily/slocate and /etc/crontab.


  /etc/cron.daily/* scripts are not run by /etc/crontab as ubuntu uses
anacron (or more exactly, ubuntu-desktop package depends on anacron).

  Instead, /etc/cron.daily/* scripts are launched by anacron when
anacron is started by cron, that is, at the time specified
in /etc/cron.d/anacron.

  For more information, read
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html , /etc/crontab
and /etc/cron.d/*. Also read the cron manpage, including the section
about /etc/cron.d/.

  Read carefully /etc/crontab, because
test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily
means if anacron is _not_ installed (but it is), then
run /etc/cron.daily/* scripts.


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Regards.

Yannick Le Saint (kyncani) <y.lesaint at gmail.com>
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