anacron

[Scott James Remnant]

On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 17:04 +0100, Thomas Hood wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 21:42, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > I'd like to propose anacron for hoary main as part of the "Even More
> > Totally Rad Laptop Support" umbrella.
> 
> Before choosing anacron, please evaluate fcron.  The advantage of fcron
> is that it executes jobs as close to the specified date and time as
> possible.  anacron does not do this; instead it interprets time
> specifications as intervals.
> 
anacron doesn't interpret time specifications *at all* -- it never reads
the user crontabs, leaving it up to cron to do that.  If you have
anything in your personal crontab, that gets handled by cron assuming
your machine is on at the time.

All anacron does is ensure daily, weekly and monthly jobs (scripts in
the /etc/cron.*.d directories) get run if more than a day, week or month
has passed since they were last run.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
scott at canonical.com
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