On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 11:39 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Do you boot F8 at 03:00 with anacron enabled? If you do Cron > will run at 04:02 [perhaps] and then about an hour later Anacron > will run, and both will be logged. This problem has persisted > through several Fedora distributions in the default condition. > > There may be something I need to set to stop anacron if cron has > already run but I have not found it. As I said it's a very > minor annoyance, I just thought there might be a fix that others > were aware of. > > Bob Goodwin I think you have it backwards: if you log in at 2:00, anacron will run at about 3:30, and then cron will run at about 4:00. Anyway that's what my logs for today show. (Don't ask me why I logged in at 2:00; it's too depressing (8-( ). If cron runs first, anacron will not redo the jobs that anacron has already run that day, but If anacron runs first, cron *will* redo the jobs that anacron has already run.
