Jobs with anacron won't run
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I would like to run two bash scripts daily using anacron in order to backup some data. Unfortunately I can't figure out why said scripts are not executed. For test purposes I let cron execute the scripts and it worked fine.
cat /etc/anacrontab gives
# /etc/anacrontab: configuration file for anacron
# See anacron(8) and anacrontab(5) for details.
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
# These replace cron's entries
1   5   cron.daily   nice run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily
7   10  cron.weekly  nice run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly
@monthly    15  cron.monthly nice run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly
1   5   TB_bak      /bin/sh /home/vasco2/Dropbox/Scripts/backup_TB.sh
1   5   key_db_bak  /bin/sh /home/vasco2/Dropbox/Scripts/bak_key_db.sh
The output of ls ~/Dropbox/Scripts/ is
backup_TB.sh  bak_key_db.sh
I use Linux Mint Katya. uname -a gives Linux vasco2 2.6.38-8-generic-pae #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 05:17:09 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
I would be very happy if somebody could point me in the right direction on why those scripts won't get executed.
P.S.: There is no anacron tag on superuser.com. Maybe somebody wants to change that.
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