Re: Anacron schedule

["Pollywog" <croak@shadypond.com>]

On Mon, 5 Mar 2001 15:58:10 -0600, Pollywog said:

> /etc/anacrontab

> On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 09:12:33PM +0100, Erdmut Pfeifer wrote:
>  > 
>  > as there is /etc/crontab for cron, there is a /etc/anacrontab for anacron.
>  
>  Indeed. Except the /etc/anacron specifies frequency (how many days
>  apart should something be done) and delay (how long after anacron is
>  invoked shoud something be done). The /etc/anachron file does *not*
>  run anacron just after 7 am every morning.

oops, sorry, I guess you already knew that.
That's what I get for reading too fast.

btw there is a startup file for anacron in /etc/init.d


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Andrew