Using Time Shortcuts to Schedule You can replace the first five columns of each record with a named shortcut if you have simple requirements. The syntax for these is "@" followed by the named interval. For instance, we can schedule something to be executed every week by specifying...
anacron: /etc/anacrontab: Unknown named period on line 17, skipping If you have your own crontab file, you can test that syntax using -T -t and specifying your custom anacrontab file name as shown below. # anacron -T -t /etc/myanacron anacron: Invalid syntax in /etc/myanacron on li...
Lines with syntax VAR=VALUE assign values to shell environment passed to the scripts and applications run when an event occurs. Each anacron daemon does not have hard-wired events. Instead, events are defined explicitly in the /etc/anacrontab file. By default, events are defined every one, se...
Assuming you have a scheduled task (such as abackup script) to be run using cron every midnight, possibly when your asleep, and your desktop/laptop is off by that time. Your backup script will not be executed. However, if you useanacron, you can be assured that the next time you power...