ANACRONTAB(5) Anacron Users' Manual ANACRONTAB(5)NAME
/etc/anacrontab - configuration file for anacron
DESCRIPTION
The file /etc/anacrontab describes the jobs controlled by anacron(8).
Its lines can be of three kinds: job-description lines, environment
assignments, or empty lines.
Job-description lines are of the form:
period delay job-identifier command
The period is specified in days, the delay in minutes. The job-identi‐
fier can contain any non-blank character, except slashes. It is used
to identify the job in Anacron messages, and as the name for the job's
timestamp file. The command can be any shell command.
Environment assignment lines are of the form:
VAR = VALUE
Spaces around VAR are removed. No spaces around VALUE are allowed
(unless you want them to be part of the value). The assignment takes
effect from the next line to the end of the file, or to the next
assignment of the same variable.
Empty lines are either blank lines, line containing white-space only,
or lines with white-space followed by a '#' followed by an arbitrary
comment.
SEE ALSOanacron(8)
The Anacron README file.
AUTHOR
Itai Tzur <itzur@actcom.co.il>
Itai Tzur 1998-02-02 ANACRONTAB(5)
