Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: > I was wondering if anybody could point me to a faq for cron and anacron? > > Reason I ask is because I am getting into noffle and the doc says to run > an > expire every day. I noticed just such a command on a directory called > /etc/cron.daily/ > > So I also, (in addition to the faq) would like to know, > > 1) how do I verify that one of the jobs in /etc/cron.daily/ ran to > successful completion > > 2) How can I migrate the running of these jobs to anacron, as my personal > computer is not a 24/7 uptime system. > > Thanks for any and all responses! > --- > > Scotty > > Thank you, David, Paul, Sam, Hugo and Maurits!
I now know it is working right. I dug the documentation a little, and found a more eloquent way to verify that anacron was working. I found that the anacrontab file uses run-parts with a setting of "--reports", I read the doc for run-parts and reset this to "--verbose" and got this in my local email Anacron job 'cron.dailyjob' From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anacron) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:01:40 -0500 run-parts: executing /etc/cron.daily/0anacron run-parts: executing /etc/cron.daily/calendar run-parts: executing /etc/cron.daily/exim run-parts: executing /etc/cron.daily/find run-parts: executing /etc/cron.daily/logrotate run-parts: executing /etc/cron.daily/man-db run-parts: executing /etc/cron.daily/modutils run-parts: executing /etc/cron.daily/netkit-inetd run-parts: executing /etc/cron.daily/noffle run-parts: executing /etc/cron.daily/standard run-parts: executing /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd run-parts: executing /etc/cron.daily/wwwoffle and now know it is working! But, I will still read the faq at ursine.dyndns.org! Thanks for the help! --- Scotty -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]