Since the normal behavior of anacron is to exit after all jobs are done the status message from the init scripts seems misleading since it suggest that the program crashed. # service anacron status anacron dead but subsys locked It should be changed to "anacron running" or "anacron last startet at `timestamp of lock file`"
Still present in anacron-2.3-25
*** Bug 91179 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
In anacron-2.3-27 and later /var/lock/subsys/anacron is no longer being touched.