[arch-general] System Cron jobs not running

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 3:54 AM, R7h0re4 <r7h0re4 at att.net> 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.