Robert Peirce wrote:
Problem 1 is trying to reach Sean Perry. Neither shalel@debian.org nor shaleh@valinux.com, as listed in anacron.8, work.Problem 2 is trying t find out why my weekly job runs three times while my monthly and daily only run once. Furthermore, until a few weeks ago, weekly only ran once as well. Can you ask Sean?While not a problem, I also note that anacron runs at about 12:30-1:00 AM if my laptop is on. It used to only run if I was logged on. I can live with either, but is this correct?I am running Version 3.3 on Mac OS X 10.4.11
Sean here.I have drifted from my Debian responsibilities so the @d.o address is no longer valid. Sadly valinux died years ago so that too is no longer a usable address.
This address works and should for the future. As for your OS X issues -- I have no experience OS X. The base idea is anacron is run (at least on Linux): * at boot time * on wake up from sleep / hibernation * via cron at the usually scheduled timesWhen it runs it writes out a stamp so it knows to wait a bit before running again. If a job doesn't finish that may lead to jobs being run again and again. Another possibility is clock skew or some other form of time confusion.