On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 18:03 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > Anacron just runs things at some random time when it happens to think > of it Do you not have a /etc/cron.d/anacron file that sets when anacron is supposed to be fired up? # Run anacron once a day, after regular cron.{daily,weekly,monthly} jobs # have started, to catch up on any missed jobs. 02 5 * * * root /usr/sbin/runanacron If that has managed to run (i.e. your computer was on at the right time), then it shouldn't run again. If it hasn't done its daily run, then it tries to catch up by doing it at some other time. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines