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<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Man page of ANACRONTAB</TITLE>
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<H1>ANACRONTAB</H1>
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Section: Anacron Users' Manual (5)<BR>Updated: 2004-07-11<BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A>
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<A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html">Return to Main Contents</A><HR>
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<A NAME="lbAB"> </A>
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<H2>NAME</H2>
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/etc/anacrontab - configuration file for anacron
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<A NAME="lbAC"> </A>
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>
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The file
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<I>/etc/anacrontab</I>
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describes the jobs controlled by <B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+anacron">anacron</A>(8)</B>. Its lines can be of
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three kinds: job-description lines, environment
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assignments, or empty lines.
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Job-description lines are of one of these two forms:
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<P>
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<BR> period delay job-identifier command
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<BR> @period_name delay job-identify command
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The
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<I>period</I>
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is specified in days, the
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<I>delay</I>
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in minutes. The
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<I>job-identifier</I>
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can contain any non-blank character, except slashes. It is used to identify
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the job in Anacron messages,
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and as the name for the job's timestamp file. The
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<I>command</I>
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can be any shell command. The fields can be separated by blank spaces or tabs.
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The
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<I>period_name</I>
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can only be set to monthly at the present time. This will ensure jobs
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are only run once a month, no matter the number of days in this month,
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or the previous month.
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Environment assignment lines are of the form:
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<BR> VAR = VALUE
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Spaces around
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<I>VAR</I>
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are removed. No spaces around
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<I>VALUE</I>
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are allowed (unless you want them to be part of the value). The assignment
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takes effect from the next line to the end of the file, or to the next
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assignment of the same variable.
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Empty lines are either blank lines, line containing white-space only, or
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lines with white-space followed by a '#' followed by an arbitrary comment.
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You can continue a line onto the next line by ending it with a '\'.
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<A NAME="lbAD"> </A>
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2>
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<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+anacron">anacron</A>(8)</B>
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The Anacron
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<I>README</I>
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file.
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<A NAME="lbAE"> </A>
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<H2>AUTHOR</H2>
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Itai Tzur <<A HREF="mailto:itzur@actcom.co.il">itzur@actcom.co.il</A>>
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Currently maintained by Pascal Hakim <pasc@(debian.org|redellipse.net)>.
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<HR>
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<A NAME="index"> </A><H2>Index</H2>
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<DL>
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<DT id="1"><A HREF="#lbAB">NAME</A><DD>
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<DT id="2"><A HREF="#lbAC">DESCRIPTION</A><DD>
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<DT id="3"><A HREF="#lbAD">SEE ALSO</A><DD>
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<DT id="4"><A HREF="#lbAE">AUTHOR</A><DD>
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</DL>
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<HR>
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This document was created by
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<A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html">man2html</A>,
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using the manual pages.<BR>
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Time: 00:06:02 GMT, March 31, 2021
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