Stop anacron?

[John Poelstra]

Bob Goodwin said the following on 12/24/2007 08:34 AM Pacific Time:
> 
> How can I stop anacron from running if cron has already run just before?
> 
> Or if they would each save to different log files I guess that would 
> work too.
> 
> As it is if the computer is running at four in the morning both are 
> saved to a file that is sent to me and I wind up reading through 
> essentially the same set of data twice.  A minor thing I suppose but I 
> would prefer getting it only once.
> 
> Bob Goodwin
> 
> 

Some people (like me) simply disable anacron for this reason on all of 
my boxes.  None of my cron jobs are so important that they need to be 
run if they missed their originally scheduled time--particularly on laptops.

chkconfig --del anacron