ANACRONTAB(5) File Formats ANACRONTAB(5) (NAME) anacrontab - Anacron (DESCRIPTION) /etc/anacrontab anacron(8) . : (job-description) . : period in days delay in minutes job-identifier command period in days ( ) . (@daily @weekly @monthly) @daily @weekly @monthly . delay in minutes ( ) anacron . 0 . job-identifier ( ) () . command . ls /proc >> /tmp/proc . : VAR=VALUE VAR . VALUE ( ). . START_HOURS_RANGE ( ) . ( ) . RANDOM_DELAY (delay in minutes) . RANDOM_DELAY anacrontab . 0 . MAILTO ( ) . MAILFROM ( ) (envelope sender) . (: MAILFROM MAILTO : MAILFROM=cron-$USER@cron.com $USER ). NO_MAIL_OUTPUT ( ) . <<#>> () . <<\>> . Anacron 0anacron ( Anacron ) /etc/cron.hourly/jobs.deny . (EXAMPLE) Anacron /etc/crontab : : . RANDOM_DELAY . . # SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root RANDOM_DELAY=30 # Anacron . START_HOURS_RANGE=6-8 # + RANDOM_DELAY cron.daily 1 5 cron.daily nice run-parts /etc/cron.daily 7 0 cron.weekly nice run-parts /etc/cron.weekly @monthly 0 cron.monthly nice run-parts /etc/cron.monthly (SEE ALSO) anacron(8), crontab(1) README Anacron. (AUTHOR) Itai Tzur Pascal Hakim . Marcela Maslanova . cronie 2012-11-22 ANACRONTAB(5)