Re: Cron startup bug (3.0r2 on Dell 8600/2.4.24)

[Martin Bock <ixel@gmx.de>]

Hello again!

> I have a similar problem on my Acer Travelmate 801. Now that I have
> checked the script you mentioned, and found it being correct, I was
> just wondering how to troubleshoot the anacron not starting. Where
> did you begin to search?

Sorry, forgot to mention that I am running Testing/Unstable on kernel 2.4.24.

Thanks in advance, Martin Bock

A. F. Cano wrote:
> 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.