Why does cron.hourly not care about the existence of anacron?
- by Oliver Salzburg
This question came up over in Root Access.
Why does the default /etc/crontab not check for existence (and executable flag) of /usr/sbin/anacron for the hourly entry?
My /etc/crontab:
# m h dom mon dow user command
17 * * * * root cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
25 6 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )
47 6 * * 7 root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly )
52 6 1 * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly )
What makes hourly different from the others?