You have been subscribed to a public bug by Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur):
Binary package hint: anacron
In 8.04 anacron is started on bootup via init-scripts.
After executing the tasks which it finds need to be executed as the were not
executed during shutdown it exits.
It is never invoked again.
In /etc/crontab you find lines like these:
56 4 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report
/etc/cron.daily )
0 1 * * 7 root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report
/etc/cron.weekly )
50 1 25 * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report
/etc/cron.monthly )
The A || B is shell syntax for execute B only if A failed.
In case anacron is installed text-x /usr/sbin/anacron succeeds, so the scripts
in cron.daily, weekly and monthly are _not_ executed here.
This issue is fixed in 10.04, but I think it's a serious security
problem as many users follow guides about auto updating your server by
placing a script in these directories (including me).
The fix to this is easy: Use the idea of the anacron package's
/etc/cron.d/anacron file from Ubuntu 10.04:
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# /etc/cron.d/anacron: crontab entries for the anacron package
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
30 7 * * * root test -x /etc/init.d/anacron && /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d
anacron start >/dev/null
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If this file was included in 8.04's anacron package the anacron daemon
would be restarted daily and do all the work in /etc/cron.daily weekly
and monthly.
** Affects: anacron (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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scripts in /etc/cron.daily , cron.weekly, cron.monthly not executed on 8.04 LTS
Hardy
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/620627
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