systemd anacron.service problem, runs only once after boot

[Sam Varshavchik]

Chris Green writes:

> My cron.daily tasks (the executables in /etc/cron.daily) are only ever
> getting run once after a system boot.  Up until July 22nd (I'm not
> sure if that date is significant) they all ran, as designed, every day,
>
> What I see from systemctl is:-
>
>     chris at q957$ date
>     Sun Aug 11 09:10:34 AM BST 2024
>     chris at q957$ systemctl status anacron.service
>     ○ anacron.service - Run anacron jobs
>          Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/anacron.service; enabled;  
> preset: enabled)
>          Active: inactive (dead) since Mon 2024-08-05 11:11:07 BST; 5 days  
> ago
>        Duration: 10min 3.217s
>            Docs: man:anacron
>                  man:anacrontab
>        Main PID: 696 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
>             CPU: 3.441s

Comparing this to what I show, systemctl also shows one more data point for  
me:

TriggeredBy: ● anacron.timer

root at ripper:~# locate anacron.timer
/etc/systemd/system/timers.target.wants/anacron.timer
/usr/lib/systemd/system/anacron.timer
/var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/anacron.timer.dsh-also
/var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/timers.target.wants/anacron.timer
/var/lib/systemd/timers/stamp-anacron.timer


/lib/systemd/system/anacron.timer is installed by the anacron package. Check  
that it's installed, if so: "systemctl enable anacron.timer".


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