I had to search the bug reports to find out why anacron was not running on my system although I emerged cronie with the anacron USE-flag. Although the documentation says: > Additionally cronie comes with an anacron implementation which must be enabled through the anacron USE flag. However, anacron is not *enabled* at all without further configuration! 1) Neither the documentation nor cronie's einfo says that anacron has to be started as hourly cronjob. I found this information here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=503666#c5 > Working configuration for /etc/crontab, when using anacron: > 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly This line could also be placed in /etc/crontab (at least commented-out). 2) I have to make sure that all scripts below /etc/cron.* are executable. This not mentioned in the documentation and I never saw a einfo explaining this when I emerged a package that installed cron-scripts. Again I found it in a bug report: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=503634 > After installing sys-process/cronie with anacron USE flag, anacron was never launched. > > I understand that anacron is launched by cron thanks to /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron. > And this script isn't executable. > After doing chmod +x /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron, anacron is correctly executed. 3. The advice to comment-out the checks for cron.daily, cron.weekly and cron.monthly in /etc/crontab (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Cron#Using_anacron) is misleading. The default crontab for cronie already checks if /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron exists and is executable. 4. It should be clearly stated that "crontab /etc/crontab" copies the content of /etc/crontab to the users crontab which leads to "root: command not found" errors when using cronie (https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455476) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Read the documentation 2. Emerge cronie with the anacron USE-flag. Actual Results: Anacron is not running though the USE flag has been set and the documentation says this would enable anacron. Expected Results: Anacron is running by default OR the documentation clearly points out the configuration steps needed to get in running. Some comments in /etc/crontab /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron or /etc/anacrontab would be helpful.
*** Bug 551352 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
please use the "discussion" tab on the appropriate wiki page for suggestions, rather than opening bugs.
(In reply to Josh Saddler from comment #2) > please use the "discussion" tab on the appropriate wiki page for > suggestions, rather than opening bugs. Huh, what!? The b.g.o BugZilla has like 5 categories for documentation bugs and none of these apply to Gentoo's documentation? I thought this is where doc bugs should go, as has always been the case in the past. Has somebody forgotten to add a note somewhere on b.g.o about where wiki.g.o bugs should go? Secondly, as far as I can tell this is not a mere suggestion but an actual documentation bug. Which should be handled as such instead of getting lost on some discussion forum.
