Re: Cron Monthly abnormality in FC12

2009-12-08 Thread Simon Andrews
Mikkel wrote: I ran into something strange with cron in FC12. The monthly cron jobs ran on December 2nd, instead of December 1st. The system was up continually from before November 30th, until after December 2nd. But for some strange reason the monthly jobs were run on the 2nd. This is a

Re: Cron Monthly abnormality in FC12

2009-12-08 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 12:14:49 + Simon Andrews wrote: I'd suggest you remove this job from cron.monthly and put an explicit entry into /etc/crontab which delivers your calendars on the first of the month. Or even more effective is moving everything out of /etc/anacrontab to explicit

Re: Cron Monthly abnormality in FC12

2009-12-08 Thread Joerg Bergmann
Am Dienstag, den 08.12.2009, 07:59 -0500 schrieb Tom Horsley: On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 12:14:49 + Simon Andrews wrote: I'd suggest you remove this job from cron.monthly and put an explicit entry into /etc/crontab which delivers your calendars on the first of the month. Or even more

Re: Cron Monthly abnormality in FC12

2009-12-08 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:34:52 +0100 Joerg Bergmann wrote: If you tell anacron to run the program monthly, it will run the program at an appropriate time the PC is switched on. Almost correct, but what it actually does is unerringly detect the most inappropriate possible time to run the job and

Re: Cron Monthly abnormality in FC12

2009-12-08 Thread Reuben D. Budiardja
On Tuesday 08 December 2009 08:34:52 Joerg Bergmann wrote: Am Dienstag, den 08.12.2009, 07:59 -0500 schrieb Tom Horsley: On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 12:14:49 + Or even more effective is moving everything out of /etc/anacrontab to explicit entries in /etc/crontab to effectively completely disable

Cron Monthly abnormality in FC12

2009-12-05 Thread Mikkel
I ran into something strange with cron in FC12. The monthly cron jobs ran on December 2nd, instead of December 1st. The system was up continually from before November 30th, until after December 2nd. But for some strange reason the monthly jobs were run on the 2nd. This is a problem because the