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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?
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.
(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.
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