11 Mar
2010
11 Mar
'10
4 p.m.
Tony Molloy wrote:
anacron is for machines that are not up 24x7 so they could miss some of the times when "cron jobs" were to be run. So anacron wakes up and checks the /etc/anacrontab file. Then it runs any jobs after a certain delay period ( not at a fixed time )
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Hope this helps,
Sadly, no.
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)?
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