Re: Anacron schedule
Thank you, Erdmut. This is much help -- indeed, the solution!
Many thanks,
judith
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 12:23:27AM +0100, Erdmut Pfeifer wrote:
>
> I think what you are looking for is /etc/cron.d and the files therein.
> Typically, when anacron is installed, there is a file /etc/cron.d/anacron
> containing the line
>
> 30 7 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron && /usr/sbin/anacron -s
>
> which explains the activity around 7 am you see.
>
> The feature that cron is treating the files in /etc/cron.d as extensions
> to /etc/crontab is a debian-specific modification of the regular cron
> behaviour -- see the section "DEBIAN SPECIFIC" in man cron.
>
> hope that helps now ;)
> Erdmut
>
>
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