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[Toby Kelsey]

David Hart wrote:
> On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 06:37:05PM +0100, Toby Kelsey wrote:
> 
>>|^ `/ () () | ( (-) | wrote:
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>>>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

/etc/cron.monthly *is* read by anacron by default. That's what started this
whole problem.

Toby