On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> >  perhaps i'm just confused, but i took a peek at my /etc/crontab file
> > on a fairly fresh install of SL6 and was surprised that it had
> > absolutely no entries that i normally expect to see there --
> > references to "run-parts" kicking off cron.hourly, cron.daily and so
> > on.
>
> Hmm this seems to have changed in SL6.
> man 5 crontab
> suggests that they are now in
>    /etc/anacrontab
> which they are for me.

  you're right, but that just seems weird to me -- i've always thought
of anacron as an independent utility from regular cron, but the above
suggests that anacron is now an indispensable part of cron.  does
anyone else find this confusing?

rday

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