Re: anacron with cron or alternate to cron

2008-07-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-07-08 19:15 +0200, Brian McKee wrote: > I'm confused about running anacron and cron at the same time. I was > under the impression that it was either/or, but I see on a server > running here that it has both cron and anacron. Just look at anacron's dependencies, it recommends cron. > I

Re: anacron with cron or alternate to cron

2008-07-08 Thread Brian McKee
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Brian McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How does anacron know that > cron already ran that job and it doesn't need to? Found my answer - there's a script called 0anacron in /etc/cron.daily that runs 'anacron -u cron.daily' which updates anacron's time stamps witho

anacron with cron or alternate to cron

2008-07-08 Thread Brian McKee
Hi All I'm confused about running anacron and cron at the same time. I was under the impression that it was either/or, but I see on a server running here that it has both cron and anacron. IIUC, anacron keeps track of jobs it runs, and marks down the completion time so it knows when it needs to