On Mon, 5 Mar 2001 15:58:10 -0600, Pollywog said: > /etc/anacrontab
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 09:12:33PM +0100, Erdmut Pfeifer wrote: > > > > as there is /etc/crontab for cron, there is a /etc/anacrontab for anacron. > > Indeed. Except the /etc/anacron specifies frequency (how many days > apart should something be done) and delay (how long after anacron is > invoked shoud something be done). The /etc/anachron file does *not* > run anacron just after 7 am every morning. oops, sorry, I guess you already knew that. That's what I get for reading too fast. btw there is a startup file for anacron in /etc/init.d -- Andrew