I am running Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04 on MediaTemple (ve) servers.
On both of them, the anacron setup is broken, ... and they have been broken since I first installed Ubuntu. It has only come to my attention recently, when I realize my log files were not rotating.
I am hoping someone who has anacron working can help diagnose the problem and suggest a fix.
Here is /etc/cron.d/anacron ... This part works correctly: Every morning at 7:30am, cron executes this command to start up anacron.
# /etc/cron.d/anacron: crontab entries for the anacron package
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
30 7 * * * root test -x /etc/init.d/anacron && /etc/init.d/anacron start >/dev/null
The problem is that /etc/init.d/anacron start fails:
# /etc/init.d/anacron start >/dev/null
start: Unknown job: anacron
Notice that /etc/init.d/anacron is a symbolic link to /lib/init/upstart-job:
# ls -l /etc/init.d/anacron
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 12 2010 /etc/init.d/anacron -> /lib/init/upstart-job
Now I am stumped. Anyone have any suggestions how to fix this?
Take a look in /var/log and see if your log files are being rotated (as opposed to growing indefinitely). If they are being rotated, then you probably have a working anacron, so please check your setup and let me know how it differs from mine.
Thanks in advance, ...