[vox-tech] Anacron says file not found... but it's there!

[Peter Jay Salzman]

bill, try this:

strace -o anacron.log anacrontab -f -n -d -t /home/foo/.anacrontab


when you get the command prompt back, look at the file towards the end.
there will be a call to "open" that returned an ENOENT.   you might be
able to do a search on:

   /open.*ENOENT

look at the arguments to open().  that might provide a hint as to what
file anacron is _really_ trying to open.


pete




begin Bill Kendrick <nbs@sonic.net> 
> Does anyone know anything about anacron?
> 
> I created the following anacrontab file (/home/foo/.anacrontab):
> 
>   SHELL=/bin/sh
>   PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin
>   
>   1  65 test echo hello
> 
> 
> 
> I tried running it with:
> 
>   anacrontab -f -n -d -t /home/foo/.anacrontab
> 
> ...but I get this ridiculous error:
> 
>   Anacron 2.3 started on 2003-01-27
>   anacron: Error opening /home/foo/.anacrontab: No such file or directory
>   anacron: Aborted
> 
> 
> 
> -f = Force execution of the jobs, ignoring timestamps.
>      (e.g., do it NOW)
> 
> -n = Run jobs now.  Ignore the delay specifications.
> 
> -d = Don't fork to the background.  (Info. messages go to stderr, here.)
> 
> -t = Use the specified anacrontab (in this case, /home/foo/.anacrontab),
>      rather than the default (/etc/anacrontab)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Any ideas?!
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -bill!

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