Robert Nichols wrote:
>> I'm trying to understand how cron works nowadays.
>> I've been comparing my Fedora-12 laptop
>> with my CentOS-5.4 desktop,
>> and am slightly baffled by the difference between them.
> In CentOS 5, anacron is started by init on entry to any of runlevels
> 2-5. The anacro
On 03/01/2010 12:12 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:28:56 -0600
> Robert Nichols wrote:
>
>> The best way to disable anacron is to edit /etc/anacrontab and
>> change the START_HOURS_RANGE to something impossible. I use
>> "START_HOURS_RANGE=25-25" on my laptop, where I prefer to ru
On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:28:56 -0600
Robert Nichols wrote:
> The best way to disable anacron is to edit /etc/anacrontab and
> change the START_HOURS_RANGE to something impossible. I use
> "START_HOURS_RANGE=25-25" on my laptop, where I prefer to run
> the various daily, weekly
That's a way, I don'
On 03/01/2010 10:55 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:56:03 +
> Timothy Murphy wrote:
>
>> Any enlightenment gratefully received.
>
> I don't know about enlightenment, but I find the whole anacron
> thing absolutely useless and annoying. I used to be able
> to get rid of it by dis
On 03/01/2010 09:56 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I'm trying to understand how cron works nowadays.
> I've been comparing my Fedora-12 laptop
> with my CentOS-5.4 desktop,
> and am slightly baffled by the difference between them.
>
> On the Fedora-12 system the venerable /etc/crontab is empty,
> and
On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:56:03 +
Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Any enlightenment gratefully received.
I don't know about enlightenment, but I find the whole anacron
thing absolutely useless and annoying. I used to be able
to get rid of it by disabling the (separate) anacron
service, or "yum erase ana
I'm trying to understand how cron works nowadays.
I've been comparing my Fedora-12 laptop
with my CentOS-5.4 desktop,
and am slightly baffled by the difference between them.
On the Fedora-12 system the venerable /etc/crontab is empty,
and the work to be done is listed in /etc/anacrontab .
As far a
