Anacron fails for permanently running systems

[Nikolaus Rath]

Binary package hint: anacron

Despite what it says in README.Debian, anacron is not run regularly by cron. This means that if the system is not regularly restarted, cron.{daily,weekly,monthly} tasks are not executed at all (since anacron runs only once on system startup).

Either there should be a clear warning at the installation that anacron *requires* you to restart your machine periodically, or anacron should install a proper entry in /etc/crontab.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: anacron 2.3-13.1ubuntu6
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: anacron
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Could you give more details here?

anacron should be run regularly by /etc/cron.d/anacron - so it certainly should *not* fail for permanently running systems

[Nikolaus Rath (nikratio)]

Hmm. I don't remember for which machine I reported this bug, and a randomly selected Karmic installation seems to have the correct entries in /etc/cron.d/anacron. Closing as invalid, I'll reopen if I run into the problem again.