I am not sure I want to use /etc/sysconfig/anacron as /etc/sysconfig is AFAIK Fedora/Red Hat specific thing. Also please rebase.

If discovering a battery that reports itself as online isn't a reliable indicator of the system's power status (and the existence of HID device batteries would seem to say that it is not), wouldn't it be better to just find a more reliable indicator?

Like, instead of checking for a type=Battery device with status online=1, why not check for a type=Mains device with status online=0? On desktops and other systems that don't have batteries, you won't find anything in /sys/class/power_supply/, so that's fine, and anything that has a battery should report the status of its AC connection as well, I would hope.

(I completely agree about /etc/sysconfig/, that's a distro modification that's not appropriate for a generic, cross-distro tool. It's fine for /etc/sysconfig/crond to be installed from the .spec, but none of the rest of Cronie itself actually depends on that file.)

Like, instead of checking for a type=Battery device with status online=1, why not check for a type=Mains device with status online=0? On desktops and other systems that don't have batteries, you won't find anything in /sys/class/power_supply/, so that's fine, and anything that has a battery should report the status of its AC connection as well, I would hope.

HAH! Which is exactly what the 0anacron script now does (since this was fixed a year ago):

# Do not run jobs when on battery power
online=1
for psupply in /sys/class/power_supply/* ; do
    if [ `cat "$psupply/type" 2>/dev/null`x = Mainsx ] && [ -f "$psupply/online" ]; then
        if [ `cat "$psupply/online" 2>/dev/null`x = 1x ]; then
            online=1
            break
        else
            online=0
        fi
    fi
done

So... this can probably be closed? (Yes, I read the year wrong when first commenting, sorry.)

Yeah, I am closing this.