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On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 14:43 -0400, Harish Narayanan wrote:
> So there you have it. It runs updatedb (or tries to) at 4:02 AM, from the second line. You can change these to more convenient times, like when the computer is actually on (and when you're not sitting at it). On a related note, I tried asking about something similar[1] -- I wanted to move this over to an equivalent "anacrontab" -- but didn't know how. If someone has any ideas, I'd appreciate the help.
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> [1] Question 3 on http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0508&L=scientific-linux-users&T=0&F=&S=&P=13080
You need to start the service anacron. Run system-config-services and
check the box for anacron (if it is not checked) and save your changes.
Then the file /etc/anacrontab which contains
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# /etc/anacrontab: configuration file for anacron
# See anacron(8) and anacrontab(5) for details.
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
1 65 cron.daily run-parts /etc/cron.daily
7 70 cron.weekly run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
30 75 cron.monthly run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
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should take effect The cron.daily line has arguments 1 65 which
means check if it has not been done in the past 1 day(s) and then wait
65 minutes and do it. I believe this is executed when you boot so the
cron.daily scripts will be run after 65 minutes if they have not been
run in the past day.
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