cron/anacron

[Frank McCormick]

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On Thu, 11 May 2006 17:55:13 +0200
Alan McKinnon <alan at linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:

> On Thursday 11 May 2006 15:08, Frank McCormick wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 May 2006 21:21:29 +0200
> 
> >   Only one more question: what are the files in
> > /var/spool/cron/crontabs used for ??? Are they the jobs for
> > individual users? If so, why does my updatedb never get updated ?
> > There is a job in there for me to updatedb and according to the man
> > the syntax is correct.
> 
> Yes, that's correct. /var/spool/cron/* contains user crontabs. In this 
> context, root is considered a user, with their own crontabs for e.g. 
> backing up /root/.
> 
> Something like updatedb is a system function and is best kept 
> in /etc/crontab. make sure you have a line like 
> 
> 25 6    * * *   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts 
> --report /etc/cron.daily
> 
> in /etc/crontab, and /etc/cron.daily/ should contain a script slocate 
> which cron runs. Your cron is probably failing as you don't have 
> write access to the slocate database.

   Can't be that as the crontab in /var/spool is for root. The mystery continues.

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Cheers

Frank

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