On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 04:15:04PM -0500, John Jolet wrote: > On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 17:11 -0400, Matt Randolph wrote: > > I have a script in /etc/cron.daily that never runs. It works properly > > when run manually and it's been in there for weeks (and a reboot or two). > > > > I'm using vixie-cron. > cron.daily doesn't get run from cron. gets run out of anacron....do you > have anacron installed?
I am not quite sure that is correct. I run vixie-cron on my desktop machine, and /etc/crontab, which vixie-cron respects, has by default the following in it: ====snip of /etc/crontab==== # check scripts in cron.hourly, cron.daily, cron.weekly and # cron.monthly 0 * * * * root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly 1 3 * * * root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily 15 4 * * 6 root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.weekly 30 5 1 * * root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.monthly */10 * * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons ====end snip==== and if you read /usr/sbin/run-crons (just a shell script) you'd see that it runs the jobs in /etc/cron.$BASE Now, it could be quite possible that the OPs system doesn't have such in /etc/crontab, or it could be missing /usr/sbin/run-crons, in which case the cron.* directory will not get executed. But AFAIK, a default gentoo installation of vixie-cron should respect the /etc/cron.* W -- Optical mice are considered "eunuchs hardware" because they lack balls. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 41 days, 1:10 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
