anacron

[David Hart]

On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 06:37:05PM +0100, Toby Kelsey wrote:
> |^ `/ () () | ( (-) | wrote:
> > 
> > What? rtfm
> 
> Yes, the man page is accurate.  But if I put a script in /etc/cron.monthly I
> expect it to be run on the first of the month, or as specified in the crontab.
> That's what I mean by "violating expected behaviour".

/etc/cron.monthly is read by (vixie) cron _not_ anacron and the files in
there will be run at the times determined by /etc/crontab _if_ your box is
up.

Anacron is called _by_ cron at the time set in /etc/cron.d/anacron (and
also directly in the boot scripts).
 
-- 
David Hart <ubuntu at tonix.org>