Re: anacron with cron or alternate to cron

2008-07-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-07-08 19:15 +0200, Brian McKee wrote: > I'm confused about running anacron and cron at the same time. I was > under the impression that it was either/or, but I see on a server > running here that it has both cron and anacron. Just look at anacron's dependencies, it recommends cron. > I

Re: anacron with cron or alternate to cron

2008-07-08 Thread Brian McKee
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Brian McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How does anacron know that > cron already ran that job and it doesn't need to? Found my answer - there's a script called 0anacron in /etc/cron.daily that runs 'anacron -u cron.daily' which updates anacron's time stamps witho