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Lone_Wolf

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output of

anacron -T

?

also please post outputs of

$ ls -l /etc/cron.*
$ journalctl --since "2 days ago" --utc | grep -i cron

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This is an oldie, but goodie; about setting up anacron.

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merlock

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This is an oldie, but goodie; about setting up anacron.

In that link I see many commands, including the creation of specific folders for anacron: does this mean that it is not enough to simply modify the anacrontab config file to activate its functions?

IIRC, you need the user folders if you have *user* jobs you want to schedule/run.

The output of anacron -T returns nothing (not even trying with sudo)

Check the man pages for anacron and anacrontab.

As an aside, have you looked into systemd-timers?  I moved all my cron/anacron related stuff over a few years ago, and have been a happy camper.

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The output of anacron -T returns nothing (not even trying with sudo).

If you execute echo $? right after that command, you'll see its exit status and it will be 0 .
On linux exit status 0 means : command was succesfull , no errors or problems found .

Lines like

giu 14 05:35:01 t495-fede anacron[2777]: Job `update' terminated (exit status: 127) (produced output)
giu 14 05:35:01 t495-fede anacron[2777]: Can't find sendmail at /usr/sbin/sendmail, not mailing output

do suggest something went wrong .

If MAILTO is defined (and non-empty), mail is sent to the specified address, otherwise, system user is used.

Make sure you have MAILTO="" in /etc/anacrontab, then ensure anacron will use the system user for output .
restart cronie / anacran to verify anacron / cronie will no longer try to use sendmail .

Post your /etc/.anacrontab .

P.S.

As an aside, have you looked into systemd-timers?  I moved all my cron/anacron related stuff over a few years ago, and have been a happy camper.

Exactly the reverse from my experience.

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I modified /etc/anacrontab by adding the following line:
1    10    anacronTest    /bin/bash /home/$USER/scripts/anacronTest.sh

*literally* "$USER"?

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I think the problem was having written "$USER" instead of my username

I'm pretty sure because anacron runs as root.

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