On Dec 24, 2007 8:59 PM, John Poelstra <poelstra@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 find it especially annoying on laptops to have it run unexpectedly and also disable it on all systems. After major updates or after cronjobs haven't run in a long time I do occasionally just run "anacron -f -d -n" to execute them when it is convenient for me. John
