Hello Pete, On Mon, 02 Jul 2018 12:31:55 +0100 Pete Biggs <pete at biggs.org.uk> wrote: > > For the record: > > # service anacron status > > Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status anacron.service > > Unit anacron.service could not be found. > > You have mail in /var/spool/mail/root > > It's not a service. As I said, it's run using a script in > /etc/cron.hourly Got it! > > Sure, anacron is not installed. So how could stuff in /etc/cron.{daily,weekly} > > work until June 02? > > Don't know. But that's how cron.daily is processed and has been since > CentOS7 was released. In fact I think CentOS 6 even used anacron. > Perhaps you have inadvertently removed an important file like > /etc/anacrontab or /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron > > > Probably because it didn't need anacron at all, no? I've looked at yum > > history, it doesn't talk at all about anacron (but cronie-anacron) so > > it's not been installed and removed). > > Yes, anacron *is* cronie-anacron > > > > It's configured in /etc/anacrontab and is usually run once a day by the > > > script /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron - cron.hourly is still run by cron. > > > If the script doesn't exist, then anacron won't run and cron.daily etc > > > won't happen. > > > > There's a /etc/cron.d/0hourly here: > > ------------- > > # Run the hourly jobs > > SHELL=/bin/bash > > PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin > > MAILTO=root > > 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly > > ------------- > > OK. So that's the bit of cron config that tells it to run the stuff in > cron.hourly - what is in /etc/cron.hourly/ ? If there is no 0anacron > file in /etc/cron.hourly/ the cron.daily and cron.weekly will not be > processed. > > > > > I'm still not sure that talking about anacron is relevant here, and I > > don't know why either if you say it should be anacron in CentOS 7. > > > Because that's how cron.daily etc is processed in CentOS 7. I'm not > entirely sure why you don't believe me. Can't always believe without proof, I'm afraid (I'm sure you've been answered incorrect/incomplete stuff many times here or elsewhere too). BUT, your answers and James' brought me some light, now I understand how it all works and how anacron is a concept that is not a service, and I thank you all for your help :-), appreciated. Regards, -- wwp -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20180702/09dd942d/attachment-0004.sig>