Re: crontab control?

[kmself]

On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 09:03:31AM -0700, Ron Farrer wrote:
> Mike McNally ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
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> > anacron
> > see man anacron and /etc/anacrontab
> 
> Ahh thanks! Another question for the list: can I safely remove anacron?
> I really dislike the time it runs at and the system is up 24 x 7 so cron
> can do it's job correctly. 

It appears you already have.

Yes, you can.  I've found anacron breaks things on my 24x7 system --
hanging cron jobs and zombies.  Bad news.

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Re: crontab control?

[Ron Farrer]

Ron Farrer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
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> > anacron is primarily intended for systems that are only up intermittently.
> > IMO, there's no reason to run it on an always-on system.
> 
> I know this, that is why I *asked* if it can be safely removed? I would
> just like to purge it but want to make sure it wont fubar anything? 

Well I went ahead and purged it. So far so good!  

Thanks to everyone who responded. 

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RE: crontab control?

[Andrew McRobert]

hi

it is controlled by /etc/crontab, one possibility why it's not running may
be the execute permissions on either the /etc/cron.daily directory or the
specific scripts ...

Andrew

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-Original Message-
From: Ron Farrer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 11:00 PM
To: Debian User
Subject: crontab control?



Hello;

What controls when '/etc/cron.daily/*' gets run? I thought it was
'/etc/crontab' but for some reason it doesn't run at the times I
specified.


TIA,

Ron
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Re: crontab control?

[Ron Farrer]

Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> Ron Farrer said:
> > Ahh thanks! Another question for the list: can I safely remove anacron?
> > I really dislike the time it runs at and the system is up 24 x 7 so cron
> > can do it's job correctly. 
> 
> anacron is primarily intended for systems that are only up intermittently.
> IMO, there's no reason to run it on an always-on system.

I know this, that is why I *asked* if it can be safely removed? I would
just like to purge it but want to make sure it wont fubar anything? 


Thanks,

Ron
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Re: crontab control?

[Dave Sherohman]

Ron Farrer said:
> Ahh thanks! Another question for the list: can I safely remove anacron?
> I really dislike the time it runs at and the system is up 24 x 7 so cron
> can do it's job correctly. 

anacron is primarily intended for systems that are only up intermittently.
IMO, there's no reason to run it on an always-on system.

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Re: crontab control?

[Ron Farrer]

Mike McNally ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> anacron
> see man anacron and /etc/anacrontab

Ahh thanks! Another question for the list: can I safely remove anacron?
I really dislike the time it runs at and the system is up 24 x 7 so cron
can do it's job correctly. 


TIA,

Ron
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Re: crontab control?

[Mike McNally]

anacron
see man anacron and /etc/anacrontab

mike

Ron Farrer wrote:
> 
> Hello;
> 
> What controls when '/etc/cron.daily/*' gets run? I thought it was
> '/etc/crontab' but for some reason it doesn't run at the times I
> specified.