[CentOS] Tasks in /etc/cron.daily on CentOS 7?

Thu Mar 12 12:57:35 UTC 2015
Tris Hoar <trishoar at bgfl.org>

On 11/03/2015 15:17, Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just configured SquidAnalyzer, a nifty little network statistics tool
> that I'm using mainly in school networks to monitor network usage.
>
> I want to run the '/usr/bin/squid-analyzer' script once a day. I took a
> peek in /etc/cron.daily, and the package already installed an
> /etc/cron.daily/0squidanalyzer script.
>
> I wanted to know at what time CentOS ran the cron.daily scripts, so I
> typed crontab -l, but there was only "no cronjobs defined for root".
>
> Here's how things look on a public Slackware64 14.0 server I administrate:
>
> # crontab -l
> ...
> # Run hourly cron jobs at 47 minutes after the hour:
> 47 * * * * /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 1> /dev/null
> #
> # Run daily cron jobs at 4:40 every day:
> 40 4 * * * /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.daily 1> /dev/null
> #
> # Run weekly cron jobs at 4:30 on the first day of the week:
> 30 4 * * 0 /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.weekly 1> /dev/null
> #
> # Run monthly cron jobs at 4:20 on the first day of the month:
> 20 4 1 * * /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.monthly 1> /dev/null
>
> How is this handled on CentOS 7?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Niki
CentOS / RHEL 7 use anacron for this

[root at server~]# cat /etc/anacrontab
# /etc/anacrontab: configuration file for anacron

# See anacron(8) and anacrontab(5) for details.

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
# the maximal random delay added to the base delay of the jobs
RANDOM_DELAY=45
# the jobs will be started during the following hours only
START_HOURS_RANGE=3-22

#period in days   delay in minutes   job-identifier   command
1	5	cron.daily		nice run-parts /etc/cron.daily
7	25	cron.weekly		nice run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
@monthly 45	cron.monthly		nice run-parts /etc/cron.monthly

Tris


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