On 06-Jan-2000 Martin Schulze wrote: > Howdy, > > can somebody explain me why our cron package suggests anacron? > > I thought anacron was useful for systems that are not turned > on 24h/day but replaces cron. Having installed both packages > doesn't make much sense, imho. > anacron merely ensures a job gets run in a period of time, cron still does the actual scheduling. As to why it suggests it, that I do not know.