cron.weekly

[Patrick Dupre]

On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Tom Horsley wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:40:55 +0000 (GMT)
> Patrick Dupre wrote:
>
>> It does run at 00:11 and 12:11 on Sunday, I know because I do see it:
>> It is a backup and it takes a while.
>
> I have had a lot of trouble with anacron deciding to "catch up" on
> missed cron jobs which were never actually missed. I finally decided
> that anacron wasn't worth the trouble it caused, so I disabled the
> anacron service and haven't had any duplicate cron runs since.
>
SO, it means that you only run crond (and not anacron)
Question,
If crond was interrupted for some reasons, does anacron would restart it
at 12:11 ?


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