Oracle Linux: Logrotate Cron Not Working - "Job `cron.daily' Locked By Another Anacron - Skipping"

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Applies To:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Linux x86-64

Symptoms

The logrotate cron jobs, such as cron.daily and cron.weekly, fail to execute, preventing log rotation. The /var/log/cron file contains errors indicating that jobs are being skipped due to locks held by another anacron process. Example log entries include:

2025-05-09T12:01:01.464163+02:00 <hostname> anacron[11273]:notice: Anacron started on 2025-05-09
2025-05-09T12:01:01.464738+02:00 <hostname> anacron[11273]:notice: Job `cron.daily' locked by another anacron - skipping
2025-05-09T12:01:01.464864+02:00 <hostname> anacron[11273]:notice: Job `cron.weekly' locked by another anacron - skipping
2025-05-09T12:01:01.465243+02:00 <hostname> run-parts(/etc/cron.hourly)[11275]:notice: finished 0anacron
2025-05-09T12:01:01.465358+02:00 <hostname> anacron[11273]:notice: Normal exit (0 jobs run)