Jason Towell <jtowell@sjgov.org> writes:
Hi Alex,
I think in a default configuration crond handles hourly and runs anacron to handle the daily, weekly, etc. I was having trouble running a daily until I realized my cron.daily shell script environment path did not include /usr/local/bin. Placing the full path to my perl script fixed the issue.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Ferrando" <alferpal@gmail.com> To: "General Discussion about Arch Linux" <arch-general@archlinux.org> Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 9:05:56 AM Subject: Re: [arch-general] System Cron jobs not running
Maybe I'm getting it wrong, but is dcron the one that runs the cron.hourly/daily and so on folders as the crontab in the wiki with reference to that default crontab for dcron, not cronie
On Fri 21 Oct 2011 05:55:33 PM CEST, R7h0re4 wrote:
Karol Blazewicz<karol.blazewicz@gmail.com> writes:
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 3:54 AM, R7h0re4<r7h0re4@att.net> wrote:
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Are you using cronie, dcron or some other cron? cronie provides anacron.
I do have Cronie installed but I am still wondering why the script won't run if put in the weekly cron folder. My understanding is the documentation is a little week concerning this topic on the Wiki. Do I need to fill a bug report, or is something out of place.
R7h0re4
Just to be safe I added the full path to my script for the commands it is calling. I also looked at the wiki again and nothing mentions the use of Cronie, and system cron jobs. I also checked the file /var/spool and see anacron which has the sub directories. I would almost say this wiki needs some updating and would assist once we get it working. R7h0re4