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 ) > > ... > > > 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 -- Chief Technical Officer. Tel: +353 061-202778 Dept. of Comp. Sci. University of Limerick.