if anacron has run and exited and one executes anacron status the message displayed is: anacron dead but susys locked.
Did anacron die, or did you do: /etc/rc.d/init.d/anacron stop Either way, check to see that /var/lock/subsys/anacron doesn't exist. Tim
OK. A new package which fixes this is being built. What was happening was that we were touching /var/lock/subsys/anacron, which was a bad thing because anacron turns itself off when there's nothing to do. The lines in /etc/rc.d/init.d/anacron which created/removed /var/lock/subsys/anacron are removed and this doesn't happen anymore. I am marking this as resolved. Tim