anacron

Scott James Remnant scott at netsplit.com
Thu Nov 11 11:42:54 CST 2004


On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 09:26 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 04:17:05PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> 
> > All anacron does is ensure daily, weekly and monthly jobs (scripts in
> > the /etc/cron.*.d directories) get run if more than a day, week or month
> > has passed since they were last run.
> 
> Does anacron ensure that these jobs are not run more than once per day,
> week or month?
> 
Yes, it only considers each job once ... so even if 8 days have past it
only runs daily once.

Scott
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