Re: Once again about anacron cron cron.daily

2013-10-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com writes: The particular part I was pedantically talking about was your comment that said checks that it is executable, yes, all good, and then you go on to say *and* sees to it that this user has permission. It was that last part, the second part of the _and_ that I

Re: Once again about anacron cron cron.daily

2013-10-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Harry Putnam wrote: Bob Proulx writes: commenting upon. Because while true for non-root for root if it is root there isn't any user test. For the root user it is purely a Alright... at last. I've been laying for a chance to pedantic right back at you... :-) check to see if there is

Re: Once again about anacron cron cron.daily

2013-10-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com writes: Harry Putnam wrote: I'm still not getting the whole picture of what is supposed to happen on a machine with both anacron and cron installed. And you might be tired of having me respond about it. :-) Not on your life! I have a certain fondness for

Re: Once again about anacron cron cron.daily

2013-10-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Harry Putnam wrote: Bob Proulx writes: Harry Putnam wrote: I'm still not getting the whole picture of what is supposed to happen on a machine with both anacron and cron installed. And you might be tired of having me respond about it. :-) Not on your life! I have a certain fondness

Once again about anacron cron cron.daily

2013-10-21 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm still not getting the whole picture of what is supposed to happen on a machine with both anacron and cron installed. I understand the reasoning for machines that are not up all the time, where anacron picks up the slack for cron jobs that came up with the machine down. I get that. But in my

Re: Once again about anacron cron cron.daily

2013-10-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Harry Putnam wrote: I'm still not getting the whole picture of what is supposed to happen on a machine with both anacron and cron installed. And you might be tired of having me respond about it. :-) I have lines like the one below in /etc/crontab [...] test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd /