Tony Molloy wrote: >> 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? -- 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