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Autor: Alessandro Vesely
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Para: dng
Assunto: Re: [DNG] SOLVED: Cron daily didn't run
On Tue 21/Dec/2021 14:01:16 +0100 Antony Stone wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 December 2021 at 13:53:48, Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote:
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>> Yesterday I upgraded and then rebooted.
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>> how come cron daily didn't run?
>
> No idea - when is it supposed to run?
>
>> I have an entry in crontab saying:
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>> 47 4 * * 7 root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly )

>
> That's cron.weekly, and will only run on Sundays.



Oops, I picked the wrong line.


The problem is a hard link to /etc/crontab; it is described here:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=647193

I too made the hard link for archive purposes. And I made it on 26 November. It didn't hurt until I rebooted...

Best
Ale
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