On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:56:03 +0000 Timothy Murphy wrote: > Any enlightenment gratefully received. I don't know about enlightenment, but I find the whole anacron thing absolutely useless and annoying. I used to be able to get rid of it by disabling the (separate) anacron service, or "yum erase anacron", but now that isn't possible. Instead I have to go to alot of trouble to transfer the anacrontab entries to crontab (fixing the format) and eradicate everything anacron does by squashing several files. I've got this script which runs in a yum hook I wrote after every update to make sure it stays squashed: #!/bin/bash # # Drive a stake through anacron's heart if updates try to # reinstall it. # for i in /etc/cron.d/0hourly /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron /etc/anacrontab do if [ -s $i ] then cat /dev/null > $i fi rm -f $i.rpmnew rm -f $i.rpmsave done Now my cron jobs run when they are supposed to run, not at some random unpredictable and highly inconvenient time. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines