Hi Josh,

yes you are right, I have added /usr/local/bin/script to anacrontab
and it worked.

Thank you
Manfred

On 11/26/25 00:08, Josh Grosse wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2025 at 04:01:53PM +0100, Manfred Koch wrote:
>> Hello Josh,
>>
>> I have read the pkg-readmes of anacron. My /etc/anacrontab
>> file contains the following content:
>>
>> # /etc/anacrontab example
>> SHELL=/bin/sh
>> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
>> HOME=/var/log
>> # format: period delay job-identifier command
>> 1?? ??5?? ??cron.daily?? ?? ?? /bin/sh /etc/daily
>> 7?? ??10?? cron.weekly?? ?? ??/bin/sh /etc/weekly
>> 30?? 15?? cron.monthly?? ?? /bin/sh /etc/monthly
>>
>> Thanks for your reply
>> Manfred
> It looks, from your reply, that you've used the example anacrontab(5)
> but did not add your /usr/local/bin/script to it.  If so, that's why
> the script isn't being run by anacron.
>
> Please follow up, if needed, to ports@ rather than misc@. Anacron is a
> third party package and is not part of the base system.