>> $ cat >> /etc/anacrontab >> 20 33 debaday wwwoffle http://www.livejournal.com/users/debaday
A> For the benefit of those of us that don't use anacron can you explain A> how this will request the page every 20th day and which is the first A> day that it will start? This says every 20 days, starting today, do wwwoffle ... One could append >/dev/null so no Getting messages go to one's mailbox. The appearance of the page in lasttime will be one's only notice, and then of course it won't appear if not changed, quite nice in fact. $ man anacron ...Anacron can be used to execute commands periodically, with a frequency specified in days. Unlike cron(8), it does not assume that the machine is running continuously... Each job entry specifies a period in days, a delay in minutes, a unique job identifier, and a shell command. For each job, Anacron checks whether this job has been executed in the last n days, where n is the period specified for that job. If not, Anacron runs the job's shell command, after waiting for the number of minutes specified as the delay parameter...
