Hello James, On Mon, 2 Jul 2018 11:31:07 +0000 James Pearson <james-p at moving-picture.com> wrote: > wwp wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 02 Jul 2018 09:59:17 +0100 Pete Biggs <pete at biggs.org.uk> wrote: > > > >>> > >>> So, service is running but what could happen that makes /etc/cron.* not > >>> being fired? > >> > >> You don't say, but if this is CentOS 7, then cron.daily/weekly/monthly > >> is run using anacron, not cron. > > > > Oops, yes CentOS 7, sorry. > > > > 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 > > > > Sure, anacron is not installed. So how could stuff in /etc/cron.{daily,weekly} > > work until June 02? > > 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). > > anacron is part of the cronie-anacron package > > There is no anacron service file ... anacron is run by cron - see below: Oh-oh, thanks for your lights. > >> 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 > > ------------- > > > > 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. > > grep for anacron in /var/log/cron* for any clues Hah! Log excerpts, something that may matter but that I missed at first: anacron[22814]: Job `cron.daily' locked by another anacron - skipping Don't know exactly what went wrong there, but I killed a few processes and I'll see how it behaves naturally this night, if it still fails I know have enough to observe, understand and fix. I think you helped me understanding few things here and how to fix it, thanks, James and Pete! 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/b6c24260/attachment-0004.sig>