Re: Anacron schedule

[Judith Elaine Bush <bush@grey-cat.com>]

Thanks for solving my problem, Mike!

Change  /etc/cron.d/anacron to change when anacron is run regularly.



On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 06:01:45PM -0500, mike polniak wrote:
> 
> 	The cron daemon uses the files  in /etc/cron.d as an extension of 
> /etc/crontab. So /etc/cron.d/anacron runs /usr/sbin/anacron -s
> 	Then> anacron -s  runs the jobs in /etc/anacrontab which has the
>  run-parts that replace cron's entries for daily, weekly and monthly.
> 	The anacrontab entries specify a period in days and a delay in
> minutes that anacron checks before it runs the job e.g.:
> 
> 1   5   cron.daily nice run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily
> 
>    	Anacron records the date, not the hour in its timestamp, so it
> knows when to execute again.