Bug#35714: anacron and cron both run cron.daily !

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

shaleh@clifford.livenet.net wrote:
> The problem is that anacron does not have the right to disable crontab.  I have
> mailed the cron maint about this and am awaiting a solution.
> 
> Simply commenting out the calls in crontab to daily,monthly,weekly fix the
> problem.
> 
> If you can offer him and I a solution, we would be appreciative.

How about if he changes /etc/crontab to use something like:

0 0     * * *   root    test -e /etc/cron.d/anacron || nice run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily
21 0    * * 7   root    test -e /etc/cron.d/anacron || nice run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly
31 0    1 * *   root    test -e /etc/cron.d/anacron || nice run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly

This way if anacron is installed the lines automatically stop working.

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see shy jo