On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Jerry LeVan wrote: > Anacron does not appear to run cron jobs at at particular time
Yeah, that's the whole point. The emphasis shifts from "I want this maintainence script to run at 3:47 am every Sunday night" to "this maintainence script needs run once a week, preferably when you're not doing anything else." More often than not, the latter is all that's really required. Anacron considers the problem from a different point of view, and for a lot of people's needs, this may be more appropriate than the traditional approach. They come right out and say on their home page that this isn't meant to replace the traditional Cron system, but rather to supplement it for people with different usage patterns (laptops, people who turn their machine off at night, etc). -- Chris Devers
