I found that my daily cron scripts in /etc/cron.daily weren't running, so I installed anacron because that seems to be the thing to do in F11. Now my jobs still don't run, but I'm spammed with: Subject: Cron <root@util2> run-parts /etc/cron.hourly /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron: cat: /var/spool/anacron/cron.daily: No such file or directory once per hour. I have another machine where /var/spool/anacron/cron.{daily,weekly,monthly} were created automatically by anacron, I presume, but on this machine that doesn't happen. I'm running fully updated F11: anacron-2.3-75.fc11.x86_64 crontabs-1.10-29.fc11.noarch cronie-1.3-2.fc11.x86_64 The machine was freshly installed, not updated from any previous release, and I've not modified any crontabs or otherwise except to place the script in /etc/cron.daily. Manually running anacron -n neither creates the files nor actually runs any jobs.
I added the requirement on anacron and I'll create an update for anacron. In my case anacron created lock files in /var/spool/anacron and the mentioned email came just once. I couldn't reproduce it on my virtual machines.
anacron-2.3-76.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/anacron-2.3-76.fc11
anacron-2.3-76.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update anacron'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-7717
Turns out the base issue was really my fault; somehow an old line from my kickstart file did echo "1 1 cron.hourly run-parts /etc/cron.hourly" >> /etc/anacrontab but since anacron was no longer in the default package set, this meant that an anacrontab file was laying around when I actually installed anacron, leading to the proper anacrontab file being installed with .rpmnew. Fixing that up got everything to run properly. Of course, that's actually a valid anacrontab, and the cron.hourly script should handle /var/spool/anacron/cron.daily not being there. However, I took a look at your update and I'm afraid I don't understand how it's supposed to change anything. Did you perhaps forget to do make new-sources FILES="..." to upload the altered "anacron" script? Because the one I see in 2.3-76 looks identical to the previous version.
You are right, the change isn't there. I'll create new update.
anacron-2.3-77.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/anacron-2.3-77.fc11
anacron-2.3-78.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/anacron-2.3-78.fc11
anacron-2.3-78.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update anacron'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-8117
anacron-2.3-78.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.