On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 06:04:23PM +0200, Stefan Fritsch wrote: > It seems it is run twice, once from /etc/cron.d/popularity-contest and > once from /etc/cron.daily. And the run from cron.d is at a different > time on each host and was successful and did not log anything.
Good! > But the > second run via run-parts /etc/cron.daily (without --crond) fails because > it is at the same time on all systems. And that produces log spam. > > # grep daily /etc/crontab > 25 6 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts > --report /etc/cron.daily ) > > Maybe the successful run should be remembered somehow? It is remembered by looking at the date of /var/log/popularity-contest. If it is recent, nothing is done. Maybe you have a cronjob that remove this file ? Or a backup program that mess with the timestamp ? Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
