[TriLUG] Cron question

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Jeremy Portzer wrote:

> Anacron is used to run cron jobs that don't run during their regularly
> scheduled time when your computer is off.

didn't know that. I assumed it was just another cron demon. 
Thanks

> You should definitely leave it enabled if it's a laptop,
.
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> Otherwise cron jobs like "updatedb" won't be run and your 
> locate database won't be updated, for example.

so when I boot up my laptop, it will launch updatedb, run my 
image/map/file updates, backup the disk, run tripwire, run 
the long check with smartctl,, :-)

Joe

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