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<p>I know I must be missing something simple. Yesterday I worked to get the suggested optimize and backup scripts for mythconverg into the cron.daily directory. I tested each of these scripts by running them as:</p>
<p>sudo /etc/cron.daily/mythtv-backup</p>
<p>sudo /etc/cron.daily/optimize_mythdb</p>
<p>They both worked and I had the backup files where they should be and data in the syslog and /var/log/mythtv/optimize_mythdb.log files to indicate they ran okay.</p>
<p>This morning anacron should have run at 6:25 my 2 daily scripts but it didn't and there is no indication in the syslog of it running. This is what I see at 6:25:</p>
<p><font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">Jan 14 06:25:01 mythbuntu CRON[11179]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily ))</font><br>
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<p>I again manually ran the scripts as before and they work.</p>
<p>Any idea on why they may not be running automatically?<br>
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<p>My crontab is below.</p>
<p>Jim A<br>
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<p>SHELL=/bin/sh<br>
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin<br>
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# m h dom mon dow user command<br>
17 * * * * root cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly<br>
25 6 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )<br>
47 6 * * 7 root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly )<br>
52 6 1 * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly )<br>
#<br>
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