[Koha] cron issue with Koha on Ubuntu

[Mark Alexander]

I wrote:

> I'm not sure I understand why anacron was required.

Looking at this some more, could it be that your server isn't running
continuously?

The reason I ask is that the file /etc/crontab on Debian 8 looks like this:

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 )

I believe this means that if your machine isn't running at these
times, and anacron isn't available, the cron jobs won't run.  In
particular, it appears that the daily, weekly, and monthly jobs are
run between 6:25 and 6:52 AM.

Anacron is useful for personal machines that don't run continuously,
but it doesn't play well with Koha, in my experience.