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.

For users of systems that have APM working, there is a example script in the
examples directory that when placed in /etc/apm/event.d will be run to ensure
that you do not miss cron events.  This is not installed by default to be
friendly to laptop users trying to conserve battery power.

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