Well, progress. I decided to use anacron so that I would not be
updating my clock at each boot. Once per week should be fine. And I
see that anacron is run by default, so all that is needed is to put an
entry in anacrontab:
# added 11/30/2009 dlh
# period(days) delay(min.) identifier job
7 0 NTPDATE-DEB
/usr/sbin/ntpdate-debian
After reboot, syslog contains:
Nov 30 11:57:14 R2D4 anacron[3551]: Will run job `NTPDATE-DEB' in 0 min.
Nov 30 11:57:14 R2D4 anacron[3551]: Jobs will be executed sequentially
Nov 30 11:57:14 R2D4 anacron[3551]: Job `NTPDATE-DEB' started
Nov 30 11:57:14 R2D4 /usr/sbin/cron[3596]: (CRON) INFO (pidfile fd = 3)
Nov 30 11:57:14 R2D4 /usr/sbin/cron[3597]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok)
Nov 30 11:57:14 R2D4 anacron[3551]: Job `NTPDATE-DEB' terminated (exit
status: 1) (mailing output)
Nov 30 11:57:15 R2D4 /usr/sbin/cron[3597]: (CRON) INFO (Running @reboot jobs)
Nov 30 11:57:15 R2D4 anacron[3551]: Normal exit (1 job run)
I take this to mean that there was a problem (exit status: 1). Yet I
can find nothing in the mail logs. man anacron says the mail will go
to the user (usually root). Is there some mail log which I am not
privy to, due to ubuntu handling of root? I can make an entry in
anacrontab to cause the mail to go wherever I want by assigning it to
the MAILTO variable, but I do not know the format. Is it just a file
name?
Thanks,
-Denis
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