I installed 8.04 and upgraded to 8.10 server, then added the ubuntu-desktop and various other packages.



I'm noticing my /etc/cron.daily is not running.



First, if I run it by hand, it hangs on 'apt'.



root@daevid:/usr/sbin# run-parts -v /etc/cron.daily

run-parts: executing /etc/cron.daily/0anacron

run-parts: executing /etc/cron.daily/apache2

run-parts: executing /etc/cron.daily/apport

run-parts: executing /etc/cron.daily/apt

[and it just sits here forever ?!]



so I put 'exit' at the top of the 'apt' script.



root@daevid:/etc/cron.daily# run-parts -v /etc/cron.daily

run-parts: executing /etc/cron.daily/000_cron_daily_test



Begining to process all scripts in /etc/cron.daily...



run-parts: executing /etc/cron.daily/0anacron

run-parts: executing /etc/cron.daily/ZZZ_cron_daily_test



All scripts in /etc/cron.daily completed to this point.



run-parts: executing /etc/cron.daily/apache2

run-parts: executing /etc/cron.daily/apport

run-parts: executing /etc/cron.daily/apt

run-parts: executing /etc/cron.daily/aptitude

run-parts: executing /etc/cron.daily/bsdmainutils

run-parts: executing /etc/cron.daily/logrotate

run-parts: executing /etc/cron.daily/man-db

run-parts: executing /etc/cron.daily/mlocate

run-parts: executing /etc/cron.daily/ntp

run-parts: executing /etc/cron.daily/samba

run-parts: executing /etc/cron.daily/standard

run-parts: executing /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd

run-parts: executing /etc/cron.daily/webalizer



Also, why does my ZZZ_cron_daily_test script run at the top and not the bottom even though it's sorted properly in a directory listing?!



root@daevid:/etc/cron.daily# ll

total 88

drwxr-xr-x** 2 root root* 4096 2009-02-23 11:12 .

drwxr-xr-x 151 root root 12288 2009-02-23 11:05 ..

-rwxr-xr-x** 1 root root*** 82 2009-02-20 11:24 000_cron_daily_test

-rwxr-xr-x** 1 root root** 311 2008-09-02 16:37 0anacron

-rwxr-xr-x** 1 root root** 633 2008-02-01 20:10 apache2

-rwxr-xr-x** 1 root root** 219 2008-10-23 23:10 apport

-rwxr-xr-x** 1 root root* 7793 2009-02-23 11:04 apt

-rwxr-xr-x** 1 root root** 314 2008-04-04 02:56 aptitude

-rwxr-xr-x** 1 root root** 502 2007-12-12 05:59 bsdmainutils

-rwxr-xr-x** 1 root root*** 89 2006-06-19 11:21 logrotate

-rwxr-xr-x** 1 root root** 954 2008-03-12 06:24 man-db

-rwxr-xr-x** 1 root root** 646 2008-06-26 07:17 mlocate

-rwxr-xr-x** 1 root root* 1154 2009-01-06 07:55 ntp

-rw-r--r--** 1 root root** 102 2008-04-08 11:02 .placeholder

-rwxr-xr-x** 1 root root** 383 2008-04-02 14:36 samba

-rwxr-xr-x** 1 root root* 3349 2008-09-09 12:46 standard

-rwxr-xr-x** 1 root root* 1309 2007-11-23 01:06 sysklogd

-rwxr-xr-x** 1 root root* 1450 2008-05-11 01:27 webalizer

-rwxrwxrwx** 1 root root*** 84 2009-02-20 11:24 ZZZ_cron_daily_test



If I rename it to "zzz_cron_daily_test" then it works in the right order. But that is completely retarded!



root@daevid:/etc/cron.daily# ll /usr/sbin/anacron

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26216 2008-09-02 16:37 /usr/sbin/anacron



root@daevid:/etc/cron.daily# cat /etc/crontab

# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab

SHELL=/bin/sh

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



# m h dom mon dow user command

17 * * * * root*** cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly

25 6 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )

47 6 * * 7 root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly )

52 6 1 * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly )



running them as crontab would do doesn't seem to do jack squat?!



root@daevid:/etc/cron.daily# test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )

root@daevid:/etc/cron.daily#



root@daevid:/usr/sbin# env -i sudo sh

# cd /

# test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )

#





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On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 11:43 -0800, Daevid Vincent wrote:

> Also, why does my ZZZ_cron_daily_test script run at the top and not
> the bottom even though it's sorted properly in a directory listing?!

Sound like you have the LC_COLLATE environment variable set. cron uses
the standard collation order e.g. LC_COLLATE=C. This sorts in strict
ASCII order. With internationalization the collation order gets more
complicated. If LC_COLLATE is set to en_US, the upper and lowercase
alphabetic characters get sorted as 'a A b B ...' instead of 'A B .. a
b ..'.
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