Hello and thank you for your assistance. The purpose of this email is that I want to make sure anacron is working properly. I installed anacron via Fink and made the updates it suggested in /sw/share/doc/anacron/README.Fink (I even used the 8:30 AM time it suggested). First and foremost, I would like to know if indeed the daily, weekly, and monthly jobs have run how they are supposed to; how do you check this? In my system.log, I typically see data of the vain:
Feb 8 09:49:21 tibook anacron[272]: Job `syscron.daily' terminated Feb 8 09:49:21 tibook anacron[272]: Normal exit (2 jobs run)
When I used to have the crontab file edited with only 10 in the minutes column (so I would assume anacron would check 10 minutes past the hour, every hour), I would see data like this:
Feb 7 09:10:00 tibook CRON[448]: (root) CMD ( /sw/sbin/anacron -s)
Feb 7 09:10:00 tibook anacron[449]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2004-02-07
Feb 7 09:10:00 tibook anacron[449]: Normal exit (0 jobs run)
Feb 7 09:10:05 tibook /usr/libexec/fix_prebinding: /sw/sbin/anacron could not be launched prebound.
Feb 7 09:10:05 tibook /usr/libexec/fix_prebinding: The file /sw/sbin/anacron changed after the prebinding problem was noted.
Feb 7 09:10:05 tibook /usr/libexec/fix_prebinding: 2004-02-07 09:10:05 -0700: prebinding for anacron done.
Feb 7 09:12:05 tibook /usr/libexec/fix_prebinding: fix_prebinding quitting for now.
Is all of the above interaction with prebinding and anacron normal? What advantages would one have having the time set to
#min hour mday month wday user command
30 8 * * * root /sw/sbin/anacron -s
...as opposed to...
#min hour mday month wday user command 10 * * * * root /sw/sbin/anacron -s
I tried reading the manpages, but I could not find the answers in there.
Apple Info: Mac OS X 10.3.2 Fink Info: Package manager version: 0.17.4 Distribution version: 0.6.2.cvs
If you want to see whether the daily, weekly and monthly jobs are running, look in /var/log. You should see the files daily.out, weekly.out and monthly.out. These files contain the output of those jobs, and the modification time on the files will tell you when the jobs last ran. You should also see a series of archived system logs, system.log.0.gz, system.log.1.gz, etc. There should be a weeks worth of them, one per day. Other logs are also archived at various intervals as part of those jobs.
Kevin Horton
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