Ubuntu
anacron package

Anacron fails in virtual machines like VMWare

Bug #237303 reported by Frank Breitling on 2008-06-04

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #411796: anacron does not execute cron.daily jobs if system is suspended between 6 and 8 am. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	anacron (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I am running Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) in VMWare on MS Windows, since suspend to RAM is broken for HP nc6120 laptops (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/222561). Then by suspending in Windows I can work around the linux bug.
However, now anacron is not executed by the Ubuntu resume scripts any more and therefore does not work if the system is not running at 7:30 a.m. (/etc/cron.d/anacron).

Proposed solution:
As suggested by angkor at http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-286480.html
solve the problem by adding the following script to /etc/cron.hourly:

#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/anacron -s

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Frank Breitling (frank-breitling) wrote on 2008-09-16:

This script has to be saved as /etc/cron.hourly/anacron . Edit (330 bytes, text/plain)

I have attached my patch as suggested.

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TheHobbit (the-hobbit) wrote on 2009-04-11:

Looking at the attachments in this bug report, I noticed that one was flagged as a patch incorrectly. A patch contains changes to an Ubuntu package that will resolve a bug, since this was not one I've unchecked the patch flag for it. In the future keep in mind the definition of a patch. You can learn more about what qualifies as a patch at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Patches. Thanks!
This obviously does not mean that the attacment is not useful, but it is more a workaround for your specific problem, which must be investigated.