On Mi, 26 feb 14, 06:41:22, Tony Baldwin wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:09:05PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > On Ma, 25 feb 14, 13:53:39, Tazman Deville wrote:
> > >
> > > I DO have anacron installed.
> >
> > Well, purge (not remove) it then, or adjust /etc/anacrontab as needed ;)
>
> Thanks, Andrei,
> But could you explain why I want to purge anacron, please?
You are not the OP, so I have no idea why *you* would want/need to purge
anacron :p but I'll explain anyway (using my /etc/crontab as example):
# m h dom mon dow user command
17 * * * * root cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
25 6 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )
47 6 * * 7 root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly )
52 6 1 * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly )
#
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The 'test ... ||' part makes sure that if you have the /usr/sbin/anacron
binary on your system the other part will *not* be executed at all. If
you do however need anacron, but want to adjust the time where the
equivalent task is run you will have to adjust /etc/anacrontab instead
as I've written above (because anacron will be running it). In my case
it's:
# These replace cron's entries
1 5 cron.daily run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily
7 10 cron.weekly run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly
@monthly 15 cron.monthly run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly
According to anacrontab(5) the first number represents a period (in
days) and the second a delay (in minutes). At first sight there doesn't
appear to be an easy way to control the exact time where a job is run,
so I'd say it's easier to just remove anacron and work only with cron ;)
Kind regards,
Andrei
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