Stop anacron?

[Aaron Konstam]

On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 18:59 -0800, John Poelstra wrote:
> 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
> 
I think : chkconfig anacron off

would be the less traumatic thing to do.
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