On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 17:49:34 -0400
Jon LaBadie wrote:
Please consider that your F24 setup is incomplete or has some
errors and your experience is not the norm.
It works fine for me with everything moved into cron.
Here's my /etc/crontab:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/
# run-parts
01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly/
02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily/
22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly/
42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly/
My /etc/anacrontab is empty (because I copied /dev/null to
it), and my /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron file is also
empty for the same reason.
This removes everything from anacron and runs things
at actually predictable times on cron.
You might ask, "Why not just remove anacron?". This
totally absurd nonsense happens when you try that:
[root@zooty ~]# dnf erase cronie-anacron
Dependencies resolved.
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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Removing:
ceph x86_64 1:10.2.2-2.fc24 @updates 0
ceph-base x86_64 1:10.2.2-2.fc24 @updates 24 M
ceph-mds x86_64 1:10.2.2-2.fc24 @updates 9.3 M
ceph-mon x86_64 1:10.2.2-2.fc24 @updates 9.2 M
ceph-osd x86_64 1:10.2.2-2.fc24 @updates 31 M
ceph-selinux x86_64 1:10.2.2-2.fc24 @updates 102 k
cronie x86_64 1.5.1-2.fc24 @updates 236 k
cronie-anacron x86_64 1.5.1-2.fc24 @updates 41 k
crontabs noarch 1.11-12.20150630git.fc24 @koji-override-0 21 k
crypto-utils x86_64 2.4.1-61.fc24 @fedora 176 k
epson-inkjet-printer-artisan-725-835-series
x86_64 1.0.0-1lsb3.2 @@commandline 3.1 M
google-chrome-stable x86_64 53.0.2785.116-1 @google-chrome 181 M
logwatch noarch 7.4.3-2.fc24 @fedora 1.9 M
redhat-lsb x86_64 4.1-32.fc24 @fedora 0
redhat-lsb-core x86_64 4.1-32.fc24 @fedora 45 k
redhat-lsb-cxx x86_64 4.1-32.fc24 @fedora 0
redhat-lsb-desktop x86_64 4.1-32.fc24 @fedora 0
redhat-lsb-languages x86_64 4.1-32.fc24 @fedora 814
redhat-lsb-printing x86_64 4.1-32.fc24 @fedora 0
webalizer x86_64 2.23_08-3.fc24 @fedora 349 k
Transaction Summary
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Remove 20 Packages
Installed size: 260 M
Is this ok [y/N]: n
Operation aborted.
Why cronie depends on anacron, I have no idea, and I suspect all the
other things being removed are because of cronie, but the only real
alternative is to beat anacron with a big enough hammer. It can't
be removed.