On Thursday 10 April 2008 11:10, Mike Chambers wrote: > On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 11:00 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I'm sure that I remember a thread from a long time ago about a delay > > being introduced into anacron. On my rawhide box the delay does seem > > rather extreme, particularly since it doesn't necessarily run as many > > hours as the other boxes. Is there some way to influence this? > > Don't if involved or not, but try /etc/sysconfig/crontab as that might > play a part. I believe the bigger the number, the less of a delay, if I > understood that correctly. > Thanks. There's no indication of how the numbers scale, so I'll experiment. Anne