A question about anacron (ubuntu 8.10)

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 17:07 +0000, Chris G wrote:

> What I can't find is a detailed description of what anacron does, e.g.
> *which* cron jobs it will run 'late' and whether it picks up user cron
> jobs as well as the ones in /etc/cron.xxx.

The jobs it runs 'late' are specified in the /etc/anacrontab file.  It
appears the default for the daily jobs is to run them if they have not
been run in the past day and delay for 5 minutes.  It does not pick up
user cron entries.
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