| Summary: | man page confused about /etc/crontab vs /etc/anacrontab? | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Terje Røsten <terje.rosten> |
| Component: | cronie | Assignee: | Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 15 | CC: | mmaslano, pertusus, tmraz |
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2011-10-24 09:19:18 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Depends if you have installed cronie-anacron or cronie-noanacron. I prefer support of the first one, so I don't mention the other choice.
man 4 crontabs
Historically the crontab file contained configuration which called run-parts on files in cron.{daily,weekly,monthly} directories. These jobs are
now run indirectly through anacron to prevent conflicts between cron and anacron. That means the anacron package has to be installed if the jobs
in these directories should be running. Refer to the anacron(8) how to limit the time of day of the job execution.
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Description of problem: Reading cron(8) I see: ... "Cron also searches for /etc/anacrontab and any files in the /etc/cron.d directory," ... "Cron checks these files and directories: /etc/anacrontab system crontab, usually used to run daily, weekly, monthly jobs." However, to my it seems like /etc/crontab is used, not /etc/anacrontab? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cronie-1.4.8-2.fc15.x86_64 How reproducible: man cron Read second section under DESCRIPTION.