Bob Goodwin wrote: > 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. I can't say that I've booted my F8 system at 03:00. If I did, then I think there is a whole different set of problems that need to be addressed...none of them related to linux...if you know what I mean. :-) > 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. Yeah. I get the feeling the problem is about at the same level as my random sig has just picked. -- What's all this brouhaha?
