anacron does not run cron.daily reliably

[Rainer Dorsch <ml@bokomoko.de>]

Hello,

I have one machine here on which cron.daily is not run reliably with anacron. 

I see in

rd@blackbox:~/Managed/LinuxInst$ grep cron.daily /var/log/syslog
Dec  1 22:55:11 blackbox anacron[14161]: Job `cron.daily' terminated (mailing 
output)
rd@blackbox:~/Managed/LinuxInst$ 

i.e. it run last time 4 days ago.

I got

blackbox:~# systemctl status anacron.service
● anacron.service - Run anacron jobs
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/anacron.service; enabled)
   Active: inactive (dead) since Mo 2014-12-01 22:55:22 CET; 4 days ago
 Main PID: 14161 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
blackbox:~# 

I have systems on which this setup seems to work nicely. Although the system 
runs Debian for a long time and has seen a few Debian upgrades, I am not aware 
that I did anacron related changes on this system.

Here is anacrontab

blackbox:~# cat /etc/anacrontab 
# /etc/anacrontab: configuration file for anacron

# See anacron(8) and anacrontab(5) for details.

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
HOME=/root
LOGNAME=root

# These replace cron's entries
1       5       cron.daily      run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily
7       10      cron.weekly     run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly
@monthly        15      cron.monthly    run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly
blackbox:~# 


Any hint what could be different at this system is welcome.

Many thanks,
Rainer


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Rainer Dorsch
http://bokomoko.de/