>
> For the record:
> # service anacron status
> Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status anacron.service
> Unit anacron.service could not be found.
> You have mail in /var/spool/mail/root
It's not a service. As I said, it's run using a script in
/etc/cron.hourly
>
> Sure, anacron is not installed. So how could stuff in /etc/cron.{daily,weekly}
> work until June 02?
Don't know. But that's how cron.daily is processed and has been since
CentOS7 was released. In fact I think CentOS 6 even used anacron.
Perhaps you have inadvertently removed an important file like
/etc/anacrontab or /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron
> Probably because it didn't need anacron at all, no? I've looked at yum
> history, it doesn't talk at all about anacron (but cronie-anacron) so
> it's not been installed and removed).
Yes, anacron *is* cronie-anacron
>
>
> > It's configured in /etc/anacrontab and is usually run once a day by the
> > script /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron - cron.hourly is still run by cron.
> > If the script doesn't exist, then anacron won't run and cron.daily etc
> > won't happen.
>
> There's a /etc/cron.d/0hourly here:
> -------------
> # Run the hourly jobs
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> MAILTO=root
> 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
> -------------
OK. So that's the bit of cron config that tells it to run the stuff in
cron.hourly - what is in /etc/cron.hourly/ ? If there is no 0anacron
file in /etc/cron.hourly/ the cron.daily and cron.weekly will not be
processed.
>
> I'm still not sure that talking about anacron is relevant here, and I
> don't know why either if you say it should be anacron in CentOS 7.
>
Because that's how cron.daily etc is processed in CentOS 7. I'm not
entirely sure why you don't believe me.
P.
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