anacron would run basically if you turn on your computer. If you want to ensure 
running ALSO if it is not turned off you have to use cron additionally.

>At 16:32h +0200 26.08.2002, Holger Schulz wrote:
>What's is really missing there is a description of the anacrontab syntax.
>But I found a link to /sw/share/doc/anacron/README.Fink
>where I found the following (a bit surprising)
>---cut ---
>[...]
>3) Add a line to /etc/crontab to run anacron at whatever schedule you
>   would prefer. (Keep in mind that running anacron doesn't
>   necessarily do anything; it merely checks to see if anything listed
>   in /sw/etc/anacrontab is due to be run. If not, it just exits.
>   As an example, if you wanted it to run once a day at 8.30 in the
>   morning you would add the line:
>[...]
>---cut---
>If this means what i understand from it, I really do not understand what anacron is 
>good for. To use anacron liek it is done it that example i have to ensure, that my 
>machine is running at 8.30.
>Elsewise my (ana)cronjobs won't be ran, again.
>
>can anyone explain that to me??
>
>hs
>
>
>>
>>May be you don't know cron?
>>man cron,crontab or
>>http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/02/26/terminal_three.html
>>one of five <http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/ct/51>
>>
>>
>>--
>>Peter Sint
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]


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