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 ) ... > 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)? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland