On Sun, 6 May 2018 10:14:54 +0100
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <j.deboynepollard-newsgro...@ntlworld.com>
wrote:
> Michael Lange:
>
> > [...] I discovered that the syslog had become rather huge, so
> > apparently logrotate had not been performed for months.
> >
>
> See the thread started by John Cunningham on this very mailing list on
> this topic 6 days before you did.
I had read this before, but the problem reported there seemed to be quite
different from mine.
As I said, anacron refused to do anything when started manually. I tried
to start anacron -fnd via strace, which showed that anacron loaded the
locale configuration files and then stopped for no apparent reason
without really doing anything. I suspected that it didn't like something
about my locale settings or maybe some environment variable. Hard to tell
though if you don't get any error message.
Anyway, I found out about the systemd-cron package, purged cron and
anacron and installed systemd-cron, which seems to do its job properly.
Regards
Michael
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