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On 5/9/06, Toby Kelsey <toby_kelsey at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> Ah, I thought it was looking at the time of day, not just the date, and so
> would
> slowly drift.  It is broken in the sense that it is advertised as a
> replacement
> for cron but doesn't actually stick to a given time of day or day of
> month,
> which to me violates expected behavour.  I'm just used to cron semantics.
>

What? rtfm

'man anacron' says:

Description: Anacron can be used to execute commands periodically, with a
frequency specified in days. Unlike cron(8), it does not assume that the
machine is running continuously. Hence, it can be used on machines that
aren't running 24 hours a day, to control daily, weekly, and monthly jobs
that usually controlled by cron.


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