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] -- Peter Sint [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
