A question about anacron (ubuntu 8.10)
Smoot Carl-Mitchell
smoot at tic.com
Thu Feb 5 17:02:42 UTC 2009
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 11:29 -0500, Pete Clapham wrote:
> OK, my installation includes anacron, and the "services" button
> indicates that it is running. However, when I put a command into the
> cron.daily directory it didn't run. What else do I have to do in order
> to get it to run?
It runs at a specific time each day. The actual cron entries are
in /etc/crontab. You will see a line like:
25 6 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts
--report /etc/cron.daily )
This means the "daily" cron tasks will run at 6:25 AM every day.
run-parts executes all the scripts in the /etc/cron.daily directory at
the indicated time.
Also be sure the script in /etc/cron.daily has the execute bits set.
e.g.
sudo chown 755 script_name
You can do a dry run test to see what will be executed by running:
run-parts --test /etc/cron.daily
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