On Monday, September 16, 2002, at 07:03 PM, Andreas Gschwendtner wrote:
> Hi everybody, > > Sorry if I am a little bit OT, as my questions are not really > concerning fink but cron and anacron. > > 1) After installing anacron on 10.2 (it was automatically installed > with findutils and I also let it run the daily, weekly and monthly > scripts) my PowerBook never goes to sleep mode. Does anybody know how > to solve this? Can't help you there. > 2) Another question: in "/etc/crontab", the daily, weekly and monthly > routines are run by the command "periodic daily" (weekly, monthly > resp.). In "/sw/etc/anacrontab" the command "sh > /etc/daily[weekly/monthly]" is used for the same (?) purpose. Does > this make any difference? What is the reason why crontab uses the > "periodic" command while anacrontab just runs the script using "sh > /etc/daily"? This was one of the changes made by Apple in 10.2. From http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2053.html • Cron jobs now use the new BSD program "periodic" for scheduling. (r. 2842289). So yes, I think this should be changed for 10.2. However it should still work without change, because Apple left the old files as symbolic links to the files run by periodic: > rohanl@gromit> ls -l /etc/*ly > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 24 Sep 17 10:13 /etc/daily -> > periodic/daily/500.daily > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 28 Sep 17 10:13 /etc/monthly > -> periodic/monthly/500.monthly > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 26 Sep 17 10:13 /etc/weekly -> > periodic/weekly/500.weekly I manually hacked my /sw/etc/anacrontab from: > ##period delay job-identifier command > # 1 5 syscron.daily sh /etc/daily 2>&1 | tee > /var/log/daily.out | mail -s "`hostname` daily output" root > # 7 10 syscron.weekly sh /etc/weekly 2>&1 | tee > /var/log/weekly.out | mail -s "`hostname` weekly output" root > # 30 15 syscron.monthly sh /etc/monthly 2>&1 | tee > /var/log/monthly.out | mail -s "`hostname` monthly output" root To: > ##period delay job-identifier command > 1 5 syscron.daily periodic daily > 7 10 syscron.weekly periodic weekly > 30 15 syscron.monthly periodic monthly And it works fine. -- Rohan Lloyd ------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: AMD - Your access to the experts on Hammer Technology! Open Source & Linux Developers, register now for the AMD Developer Symposium. Code: EX8664 http://www.developwithamd.com/developerlab _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
