[vox-tech] cron - not at a different time

[Ken Herron]

--On Wednesday, March 03, 2004 10:11:10 -0800 Peter Jay Salzman 
<p@dirac.org> wrote:

>> > 25 4 * * * root test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report
>> /etc/cron.daily
>>
>> That line will only launch "run-parts" if /usr/sbin/anacron doesn't
>> exist. Does /usr/sbin/anacron exist?
>
> ken,
>
> yeah, it does exist.   daily definitely runs.  it just runs at a time i
> wasn't expecting.

My point was that if /usr/sbin/anacron exists, then the crontab line 
above will not run cron.daily. You say that /usr/sbin/anacron exists, so 
cron.daily is not being launched as a result of the above crontab line. 
That means something else is running it. Something like anacron, for 
example.


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