Re: puzzled about cron and anacron

With anacron installed /etc/crontab actually does not start a daily task in /etc/cron.daily; the line 25 6* * * roottest -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily ) (without line break) just tests if anacron is executable. Actually, anacron itself is startet

Re: puzzled about cron and anacron

[skipping a lot of lines ...] Paul> I leave my computer on overnight just so I can have this job Paul> done, but there are indications in the log that seem, to my Paul> untrained eye, to be anacron restarting cron jobs every morning Paul> --- why? And how does it arrive at 7:35? The README.De

puzzled about cron and anacron

I am setting up a cron job to do a daily backup of files on disk. I have put a call to the backup program in /etc/cron.daily and it does run daily, but not at the time that I would like it to run. The puzzle is that /etc/crontab specifies that the jobs in /etc/cron.daily should be run starting a