A question about anacron (ubuntu 8.10)

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 17:56 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 10:43:00AM -0700, Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:

> > The jobs it runs 'late' are specified in the /etc/anacrontab file.  It
> > appears the default for the daily jobs is to run them if they have not
> > been run in the past day and delay for 5 minutes.  It does not pick up
> > user cron entries.
> 
> Thank you, I'd started by looking at that file but should have
> returned to it. It's all fairly straightforward on a second look.

FYI, the job timestamps are kept in /var/spool/anacron.  You can see
when the job was last run by the last modified time of each file.
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