My daily weekly and monthly cron jobs recently stopped working. Around October 
3. It looks like the jobs only run now if the computer is on at exactly 12AM. 
Is this the change that was discussed back in July, about run-parts?

-a TW user

I noticed the same behavior here after the update from cronie-1.5.5-84.4 to cronie-1.5.7-85.1 (installed 09/06/21). The new syntax in /etc/crontab

  @hourly         root      run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
  @daily          root      run-parts /etc/cron.daily
  @weekly         root      run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
  @monthly        root      run-parts /etc/cron.monthly

doesn't work here. System is switched on by BIOS at 2am (UTC) for daily backup and runs for 20-30 minutes, but no cron jobs are executed (also not during the day).

So I went back to

  -*/15 * * * *   root  test -x /usr/libexec/cron/run-crons && /usr/libexec/cron/run-crons >/dev/null 2>&1

which works fine.

"run-parts --test /etc/cron.daily/" shows all scripts in /etc/cron.daily (for some reason it will not show any file names containing a ".", so /etc/cron.daily "cron-script.sh" will not show up).

Regards,

Oliver