Mystified by crontab/anacrontab

[Robert Nichols]

On 03/01/2010 12:12 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:28:56 -0600
> Robert Nichols wrote:
>
>> The best way to disable anacron is to edit /etc/anacrontab and
>> change the START_HOURS_RANGE to something impossible.  I use
>> "START_HOURS_RANGE=25-25" on my laptop, where I prefer to run
>> the various daily, weekly
>
> That's a way, I don't know about the best way. That's the exact
> sort of thing someone might decide "Oh! That's impossible, he
> couldn't mean that, let's just assume an obviously superior
> value for the poor user who mis-configured his anacrontab." :-).

I confess that I peeked at the source before doing that.

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