Hello and thank you for your assistance. The purpose of this email is that I want to make sure anacron is working properly. I installed anacron via Fink and made the updates it suggested in /sw/share/doc/anacron/README.Fink (I even used the 8:30 AM time it suggested). First and foremost, I would like to know if indeed the daily, weekly, and monthly jobs have run how they are supposed to; how do you check this? In my system.log, I typically see data of the vain:

Feb  8 09:49:21 tibook anacron[272]: Job `syscron.daily' terminated
Feb  8 09:49:21 tibook anacron[272]: Normal exit (2 jobs run)

When I used to have the crontab file edited with only 10 in the minutes column (so I would assume anacron would check 10 minutes past the hour, every hour), I would see data like this:

Feb 7 09:10:00 tibook CRON[448]: (root) CMD ( /sw/sbin/anacron -s)
Feb 7 09:10:00 tibook anacron[449]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2004-02-07
Feb 7 09:10:00 tibook anacron[449]: Normal exit (0 jobs run)
Feb 7 09:10:05 tibook /usr/libexec/fix_prebinding: /sw/sbin/anacron could not be launched prebound.
Feb 7 09:10:05 tibook /usr/libexec/fix_prebinding: The file /sw/sbin/anacron changed after the prebinding problem was noted.
Feb 7 09:10:05 tibook /usr/libexec/fix_prebinding: 2004-02-07 09:10:05 -0700: prebinding for anacron done.
Feb 7 09:12:05 tibook /usr/libexec/fix_prebinding: fix_prebinding quitting for now.


Is all of the above interaction with prebinding and anacron normal? What advantages would one have having the time set to
#min hour mday month wday user command
30 8 * * * root /sw/sbin/anacron -s


...as opposed to...

#min    hour    mday    month   wday    user    command
10      *       *       *       *       root    /sw/sbin/anacron -s

I tried reading the manpages, but I could not find the answers in there.

Apple Info:
Mac OS X 10.3.2
Fink Info:
Package manager version: 0.17.4
Distribution version: 0.6.2.cvs



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