Bug 744049

Summary: cron seems not to be running?
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Donald Cohen <don-redhat-z6y>
Component: cronieAssignee: Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 16CC: extras-orphan, mmaslano, notting, pertusus, tmraz
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Description Donald Cohen 2011-10-06 20:21:56 UTC 
recently upgraded to fc16beta
I see nothing in the log about cron and my cron jobs do not run.
I see nothing about either cron or anacron in the service configuration or 
in chkconfig...
Where is it?  How am I supposed to start it?
Comment 1 Marcela Mašláňová 2011-10-07 07:08:27 UTC 
Did you hear about systemd? Good news than, all major daemons have sysvinit scripts converted into systemd unit files.

You can check if cron is running by:
systemctl status crond.service
And start it by:
systemctl start crond.service

anacron is not a daemon for a while, it's binary run by cron.daily cronjob.

I'm not sure if cron will be running automatically after upgrade. I wrote many scriptlets into cron rpm, but it looks like it fails in some cases.
Comment 2 Donald Cohen 2011-10-07 08:06:23 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Did you hear about systemd? 
No I didn't, and thanks for this info.
(Where was I supposed to be looking?)
now looking at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Systemd
It is annoying that I find all these facilities like "service configuration" 
that don't mention cron at all.
Also annoying that the cron stuff that was running before upgrade seems to
have disappeared.
In any case thanks for solving this mystery. 
 I wonder which others I have yet to encounter.
Comment 3 Marcela Mašláňová 2011-10-07 08:41:51 UTC 
Feature for conversion of sysvinit scripts into systemd units is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SysVtoSystemd
But it's not finished. Installation should be working fine, but upgrade will be problem.
You might need:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Systemd_problems