Stop anacron?

[John Cornelius]

Bob Goodwin wrote:

> inode0 wrote:
>
>> On Dec 25, 2007 8:46 AM, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> The obvious choice to me would be to turn off cron and let anacron run
>>> since I believe it comes on sometime [programmable] after boot.  My
>>> problem being that I normally shut the computer down at night  and get
>>> up early on the morning  sometimes before and sometimes after cron 
>>> runs.
>>>
>>> However I believe cron must be left on or anacron won't run?
>>>     
>>
>>
>> You could always just change the time cron trips its routine
>> processing by changing /etc/crontab to a time more suitable for your
>> needs too.
>>
>> John
>>   
>
>
>    Yes, I have been considering doing that too.  If I set cron to run
>    at 07:00 I could stop anacron and would probably have a log entry
>    most every day.
>
>    I just thought I might be missing something that everyone else knew
>    about ...
>
>    Bob Goodwin.

Anacron is only supposed to run jobs that were supposed to be run by 
cron but were not for some reason. There may be a configuration error in 
/etc/anacrontab.

--jc