What's the meaning of "anacron[PID]: Job `NAME' locked by another anacron - skipping"?

Solution Unverified - Updated 2021-06-17T09:03:39+00:00 -

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Environment

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux All
• cronie

Issue

I found some message like ''locked by another anacron - skipping", what is the problem with cron?

Resolution

When anacron runs, it will add locks on the job files and will remove the lock on the job file when a job finishes. This message means some jobs are still running so the anacron process still holds the locks.

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