Change time updatedb is run

[Bill Marcum]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 13:15:19 -0400, Derek Broughton 
  <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>
> anacron won't run at all if you're running 24/7.  It gets kicked off at boot
> time, and determines when it will run the jobs that cron _should have run_
> while it was powered down.  Once it's run everything in its schedule,
> anacron stops.
>
If your machine runs 24/7, anacron runs at the time set in 
/etc/cron.d/anacron.  The files in /etc/cron.d use the /etc/crontab 
format, where the sixth column is the username.


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