Re: [CentOS] crontab and/or anacrontab ?

Tony Molloy wrote:

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If "anacron is for machines that are not up 24x7" then why run it on machines that are up all the time (which I imagine is most CentOS machines)?

It's only on if you have switched it on.. # chkconfig --list | grep anacron

will tell you if it is switched on

In my case, it is on (on both my CentOS machines) but I certainly did not turn it on. On one machine at least it must have been running since CentOS was installed.

By the way I run centos on several of my laptops and they're not up 24x7

Seems a strange distribution to me to run on a laptop. Don't you find you are missing some things?

In any case, surely CentOS is intended basically for servers, which are unlikely to be turned off very often?