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anacron package

  1. Bug #382315
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 382315

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marco.pallotta (marco-pallotta) wrote :

Some days ago I have started my PC and syslog sayd:

May 14 08:40:56 ramses anacron[6696]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2009-05-14
May 14 08:40:56 ramses anacron[6696]: Will run job `cron.daily' in 5 min.
...
...
May 14 08:45:56 ramses anacron[6696]: Job `cron.daily' started
May 14 08:45:56 ramses anacron[7302]: Updated timestamp for job `cron.daily' to 2009-05-14

but then it seems that no scripts, in /etc/cron.daily, were executed (I also made a script that do a simple touch of a file in a directory but nor this was executed). Moreover my anacrontab has a period of 1 day and my PC was off for about 3-4 days, so the jobs weren't executed for more than 1 day (that it seems the period after the which anacron starts the job) and they should have been run.
If I watched /var/spool/anacron/cron.daily file I could see the timestamp updated to 20090514 so anacron assumed that the jobs were executed but this wasn't.