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Re: Jessie: No logrotate since October 2016?

From	Boyan Penkov <boyan.penkov@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Jessie: No logrotate since October 2016?
Date	2018-05-06 19:20 +0200
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> On May 6, 2018, at 05:10, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> wrote:
> 
> John Cunningham:
> 
>> I hate to wade into the pool of systemd hate, but is this systemd's fault? I noticed anacron doesn't exist on this system. Is it supposed to anymore? Or is that one of the things that have been deprecated? If so, how are the /etc/cron.daily jobs getting run these days?
>> 
> You'll have to check the timeframe of when these changes happened with respect to Debian 8, but a Debian 9 system does not use cron to run anacron and various other things like phpsessionclean, nor use anacron itself to run various further things.  You'll find [ ! -d /run/systemd/system ] in various places in Debian Linux nowadays that turns stuff off when systemd is running, as well as reliance on the fact that systemd ignores non-native stuff if it has native stuff of the same name (such as anacron.timer).
> 
> * https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/438379/5132

Thanks for the pointer, particularly here...

> 
> * https://sources.debian.org/src/anacron/2.3-24/debian/anacron.timer/
> 
> * https://sources.debian.org/src/apt/1.6.1/debian/apt.apt-compat.cron.daily/
> 
> * https://sources.debian.org/src/man-db/2.8.3-2/debian/cron.daily/
> 
> Moreover, you will find the similar [ -x /usr/sbin/anacron ] in various places to control what happens when anacron is not installed.
> 
> * https://sources.debian.org/src/cron/3.0pl1-130/debian/crontab.main/
> 
> So bear in mind that your learned ideas about what runs what are no longer true.
>

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Jessie: No logrotate since October 2016? John Cunningham <djohngo@gmail.com> - 2018-04-24 18:50 +0200
  Re: Jessie: No logrotate since October 2016? Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2018-04-24 20:10 +0200
    Re: Jessie: No logrotate since October 2016? Boyan Penkov <boyan.penkov@gmail.com> - 2018-04-24 20:10 +0200
      Re: Jessie: No logrotate since October 2016? Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2018-04-24 20:30 +0200
        Re: Jessie: No logrotate since October 2016? Boyan Penkov <boyan.penkov@gmail.com> - 2018-05-04 01:40 +0200
  Re: Jessie: No logrotate since October 2016? Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2018-05-06 11:30 +0200
    Re: Jessie: No logrotate since October 2016? Boyan Penkov <boyan.penkov@gmail.com> - 2018-05-06 19:20 +0200
    Re: Jessie: No logrotate since October 2016? John Cunningham <djohngo@gmail.com> - 2018-05-08 18:20 +0200
  Re: Jessie: No logrotate since October 2016? Dominique Dumont <dod38fr@googlemail.com> - 2018-05-10 13:10 +0200

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