Ed Greshko wrote:
John Cornelius wrote:
Anacron is only supposed to run jobs that were supposed to be run by
cron but were not for some reason. There may be a configuration error in
/etc/anacrontab.
Which is kind of why I'm wondering why some folks seem to be having problems
in this area.
I run F8 as a Vmware guest and it can be days before I run F8 and I never
see any of the issues that are raised. Just doesn't happen. I don't get
multiple runs of cron jobs.
Do you boot F8 at 03:00 with anacron enabled? If you do Cron
will run at 04:02 [perhaps] and then about an hour later Anacron
will run, and both will be logged. This problem has persisted
through several Fedora distributions in the default condition.
There may be something I need to set to stop anacron if cron has
already run but I have not found it. As I said it's a very
minor annoyance, I just thought there might be a fix that others
were aware of.
Bob Goodwin
