On Feb 10, 2022, at 15:42, Patrick Dupre <pdupre(a)gmx.com> wrote:
Hello,
Currently anacrontab is set
7 25 cron.weekly nice run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
It means that it run every Thursday.
I am no satisfied by thus day.
How can I have it running every Saturday ?
crontab is not activated
#30 12 * * 6 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
6 would be the right day.
Take this advice with a grain of salt, I am writing this from a mobile device from memory
of how it works.
Cron.weekly is launched from anacrontab, which doesn’t actually set a day of week, just
the interval between runs. It checks a date in /var/spool/anacron/cron.weekly, and if it
has been more than 7 days (that’s what the 7 stands for in that line) then it runs. Then
it sets the date in the spool file for that day, so subsequent checks will reference it.
This is great to capture jobs that need to run if it’s been *more* than a week, but
doesn’t actually help if you want to set weekly jobs to run on a certain day.
I can see two solutions:
1.) edit the spool file to be last Saturday.
2.) just use a regular cron job in/etc/cron.d/.
And yes, 6 is Saturday. I believe you can just use the word too in cronie. It is smart.
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Jonathan Billings