Hi everyone,
This might be old news to everyone else, but I didn't see any reference
to it while I was tracking down the problem.
Log files were not being rotated, so I started backtracking to find out
why. It turns out that Anacron wasn't being started because of a bug in
/usr/bin/on_ac_power. This script checks if the AC power is on, and if
it is not, does not start anacron. It turns out that the ACPI file it
checks is not the correct one, and so anacron never starts, even when on
AC power. The following snippet of code is what's in the standard
distribution (3.0r2):
acpi_available && [ -r /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/0/status ] && {
grep on-line /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/0/status >/dev/null 2>&1 && exit 0
grep off-line /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/0/status >/dev/null 2>&1 && exit 1
It should be replaced with the following
acpi_available && [ -r /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC/state ] && {
grep on-line /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC/state >/dev/null 2>&1 && exit 0
grep off-line /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC/state >/dev/null 2>&1 && exit 1
as that is the real location of the ACPI file (at least for kernel 2.4.24).
A.