====== CentOS6のcronとanacronの処理 ======

===== 初期の配置 =====
<code>
/
└── etc
     ├── cron.d
     │   └── 0hourly : 毎時1分に /etc/cron.hourly 以下を実行
     ├── cron.daily
     │   └── logrotate
     ├── cron.deny
     ├── cron.hourly
     │   └── 0anacron : anacron 実行
     ├── cron.monthly
     │   └── 
     ├── cron.weekly
     │   └── 
     └── crontab : 初期値は空
</code>

===== 各ファイル =====

==== /etc/crontab ====
システムのcrontab、初期値は空
<code>
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/

# For details see man 4 crontabs

# Example of job definition:
# .---------------- minute (0 - 59)
# |  .------------- hour (0 - 23)
# |  |  .---------- day of month (1 - 31)
# |  |  |  .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ...
# |  |  |  |  .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat
# |  |  |  |  |
# *  *  *  *  * user-name command to be executed
</code>

==== /etc/cron.d/0hourly ====
毎時1分にcron.hourlyを実行
<code>
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/
01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
</code>

==== /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron ====
一時間ごとにanacronを起動
<code>
#!/bin/bash
# Skip excecution unless the date has changed from the previous run 
if test -r /var/spool/anacron/cron.daily; then
    day=`cat /var/spool/anacron/cron.daily`
fi
if [ `date +%Y%m%d` = "$day" ]; then
    exit 0;
fi

# Skip excecution unless AC powered
if test -x /usr/bin/on_ac_power; then
    /usr/bin/on_ac_power &> /dev/null
    if test $? -eq 1; then
    exit 0
    fi
fi
/usr/sbin/anacron -s
</code>

==== /etc/anacrontab ====
anacronが/etc/cron.(daily|weekly|monthly)を実行
<code>
# /etc/anacrontab: configuration file for anacron

# See anacron(8) and anacrontab(5) for details.

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=""

1       65      cron.daily              run-parts /etc/cron.daily
7       70      cron.weekly             run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
30      75      cron.monthly            run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
</code>