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From: Doug Laidlaw on 25 May 2010 19:00
On Tue, 25 May 2010 10:40:54 -0500
Kevin the Drummer <nobody(a)cosgroves.us> wrote:

> I've noticed that Mandriva 2010.0 appears to be using anacron. I
> expect that this is the reason that when my machine has been off for
> more than a day, that when I boot it up the next time, then the
> nightly cron jobs run earlier than nighttime. I like this. But, I
> wonder, and I haven't been able to tell yet, do the users' personal
> cron jobs get run as well as the system stuff in /etc/cron.* ???
>
> Thanks...
>

No, only the jobs specified for anacron: look at the
files in /var/spool/anacron/ Anacron was intended to run only
maintenance jobs. I don't know how you could configure it to run a
personal crontab -- perhaps add specific jobs to one of those files,
but they would probably run as a different user.

HTH,

Doug.
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