Talk:Cron

anacron AND vixie-cron
Hi, I would add some notes about the usage of anacron AND vixie-cron. In that case I usually use the following:

/etc/crontab

as you see the daily,weekly and monthly part of the lastrun deletion is commented since I let anacron to perform the job as set in /etc/anacrontab:

/etc/anacrontab

Without these changes the daily,weekly and monthly parts will be executed twice. Regards Giampiero

--Zio-lupo (talk) 08:28, 5 October 2013 (UTC)


 * I personally don't recommend to use multiple cron systems concurrently, but if it needs to be documented, it might be better to add a "Multiple crons concurrently" section (as another section where the cron systems themselves are documented)? --SwifT (talk) 13:07, 6 October 2013 (UTC)


 * I got your point, I do not raccommend at all the run of multiple cron systems, but anacron is different: it needs to be run with another cron, without simply it doesn't work. So far this topic should be added in the anacron section rather in a new one.Zio-lupo (talk) 08:41, 11 October 2013 (UTC)