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Hello

On my server Cento 6 64Bit the crontab was missing and i try to install it manually as i want to run 2 cron tasks but those tasks never run and i test it on Centos 5 and it is just fine ...

I think that something changed on the new Centos 6 related as i am reading on the net thay are using anacrontab and not crontab anymore...

But this software have some folders inside /etc/ like cron.daily cron.d cron.monthly cron.weekly and inside these folders are some files that seems to be each task each file...

This is what i did:

Code:

yum -y install crontabs cronie cronie-anacron

Then i edit it using:

Code:

nano anacrontab - e

then i add my two lines inside but never runs ...

I also add the lines to test on crontab file but as i am using Centos 6 i think is better to use the anacrontab.

Then after not working i try this:

Code:

/etc/init.d/crond restart

All OK !

Then this:
service crond status

And i got running with pid bla bla...

On cron logs i can see other things to run like disk alert and logrotate that are files that exist on /etc/cron.daily ....

But when i add my lines on anacrontab there are not any other entries there and the same also for crontab...

Also reading on the net i think i must configure also this settings that i do not know where they are:

Code:

SHELL=/bin/sh

PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

MAILTO=root

# the maximal random delay added to the base delay of the jobs

RANDOM_DELAY=45

# the jobs will be started during the following hours only

START_HOURS_RANGE=20-22

 

#period in days  delay in minutes  job-identifier  command

1      5      cron.daily              nice run-parts /etc/cron.daily

7      25      cron.weekly            nice run-parts /etc/cron.weekly

@monthly 45    cron.monthly            nice run-parts /etc/cron.monthly

I want to run cronjobs always and not limit per hours per day as my cron jobs are running very ofthen like 15 minutes all day and night.

I do not need also delay...

cron tasks:

Code:

*/15 * * * * /usr/local/bin/indexer --config /usr/local/etc/sphinx_ipb.conf ipb_search_posts_delta ipb_search_topics --rotate

0 4 * * * /usr/local/bin/indexer --config /usr/local/etc/sphinx_ipb.conf --all --rotate

Any ideas on how to remove this and installing the normal crontab and start using it?