A question about anacron (ubuntu 8.10)
Smoot Carl-Mitchell
smoot at tic.com
Thu Feb 5 18:49:01 UTC 2009
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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