On Thursday 11 March 2010 16:00:49 Timothy Murphy wrote:
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)?
It's only on if you have switched it on.. # chkconfig --list | grep anacron
will tell you if it is switched on
# chkconfig --level 35 anacon off
will switch it off. on next rebot
# service anacron stop
will stop it immediatley.
You don't need it on a machine that's up 24x7. cron should handle all your scheduled jobs.
By the way I run centos on several of my laptops and they're not up 24x7
Tony