On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 01:04:04AM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 07:55:30PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 12:15:19PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > > anacron. > > > > > > cron and anacron solve similar problems but with a different approach > > > based on different requirements. The two are not mutually exclusive. > > > > Ah. Well, that's for stuff that has to be run even when the machine's > > down. > > I'd love to be able to run stuff when my machine's down. :-) What did > you actually mean? I don't know what he meant but the way I understand it, cron runs stuff at a specified time. For example you could set up logrotation to happen on tuesdays at 11:05 PM. Except what happens if the user turns off the machine at 10 oclock each night. Then the logs never get rotated. With anacron you say the logrotation should occur every X hours/days/etc the computer is on. P.S. I'm really not sure about this, I've never used anachron directly, though I have used cron a good deal. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com> http://www.crasseux.com
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