On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 3:54 AM, R7h0re4 wrote:

I made a custom script that I want to put into the weekly system cron job and according to my logs the script is not running weekly like it should.

-rwxr--r--  1 root root    87 Aug  4 13:39 cool_script.sh

According to my information the permission are correct as only root should be able to run system cron jobs.

This is the only thing I have seen in my logs.

Oct 20 03:01:02 localhost anacron[14161]: Anacron started on 2011-10-20 Oct 20 03:01:02 localhost anacron[14161]: Job `cron.weekly' locked by another an acron - skipping Oct 20 03:01:02 localhost anacron[14161]: Will run job `cron.daily' in 12 min. Oct 20 03:01:02 localhost anacron[14161]: Jobs will be executed sequentially Oct 20 03:02:01 localhost anacron[14151]: Job `cron.weekly' started Oct 20 03:02:02 localhost anacron[14151]: Job `cron.weekly' terminated Oct 20 03:02:02 localhost anacron[14151]: Normal exit (1 job run) Oct 20 03:13:02 localhost anacron[14161]: Job `cron.daily' started Oct 20 03:13:55 localhost anacron[14161]: Job `cron.daily' terminated Oct 20 03:13:55 localhost anacron[14161]: Normal exit (1 job run)

I do not have Anacron installed, and my script does not run weekly like it is supposed too, I would like fix this problem.

Any suggestions are welcome!

R7h0re4

Are you using cronie, dcron or some other cron? cronie provides anacron.

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 writes:

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On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 3:54 AM, R7h0re4 wrote:

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I made a custom script that I want to put into the weekly system cron job and according to my logs the script is not running weekly like it should.

-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 87 Aug 4 13:39 cool_script.sh

According to my information the permission are correct as only root should be able to run system cron jobs.

This is the only thing I have seen in my logs.

Oct 20 03:01:02 localhost anacron[14161]: Anacron started on 2011-10-20 Oct 20 03:01:02 localhost anacron[14161]: Job `cron.weekly' locked by another an acron - skipping Oct 20 03:01:02 localhost anacron[14161]: Will run job `cron.daily' in 12 min. Oct 20 03:01:02 localhost anacron[14161]: Jobs will be executed sequentially Oct 20 03:02:01 localhost anacron[14151]: Job `cron.weekly' started Oct 20 03:02:02 localhost anacron[14151]: Job `cron.weekly' terminated Oct 20 03:02:02 localhost anacron[14151]: Normal exit (1 job run) Oct 20 03:13:02 localhost anacron[14161]: Job `cron.daily' started Oct 20 03:13:55 localhost anacron[14161]: Job `cron.daily' terminated Oct 20 03:13:55 localhost anacron[14161]: Normal exit (1 job run)

I do not have Anacron installed, and my script does not run weekly like it is supposed too, I would like fix this problem.

Any suggestions are welcome!

R7h0re4

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