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- anacron for DEBIAN
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-
- Anacron runs transparent to the system. In other words, you should never be
- aware that anacron and not cron is taking care of your cron jobs. Jobs
- registered via cron are run by anacron instead.
-
- To avoid cron and anacron running the same job, place a line like:
-
- test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts
-
- in your crontab. This will check if anacron exists and if not, it will let
- cron do its thing. The advantage is that if you later remove anacron, this
- will still work.
-
- N.B. Note that on current Debian systems crontab should look like this already.
-
- anacron leaves messages in /var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages by default.
-
- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@debian.org>, Tue, 30 Mar 1999 13:38:25 -0500
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