Comments on: How to change the time anacron runs. https://play.datalude.com/blog/2015/06/how-to-change-the-time-anacron-runs/ Efficiency vs. Inefficiency, in a no-holds barred fight. Tue, 25 Feb 2020 09:37:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: admin https://play.datalude.com/blog/2015/06/how-to-change-the-time-anacron-runs/comment-page-1/#comment-998 Tue, 25 Feb 2020 09:37:44 +0000 http://play.datalude.com/blog/?p=325#comment-998 In reply to Raph.

I'm not sure at the moment, but that looks like the stamp from the last time anacron ran. So when you boot up, it will know if it has to run again (eg if the stamp is > 24 hours for cron.daily).
My understanding is that regular cron works well for servers which are on 24/7, but anacron is more useful on desktops which are switched on and off.

]]> By: Raph https://play.datalude.com/blog/2015/06/how-to-change-the-time-anacron-runs/comment-page-1/#comment-996 Fri, 31 Jan 2020 07:04:28 +0000 http://play.datalude.com/blog/?p=325#comment-996 Timestamp looks to be kept here:

user@host:/var/spool/anacron$ sudo cat cron.weekly
20200131

I think that modifying date contained in the file, is doing the trick.

]]> By: JC https://play.datalude.com/blog/2015/06/how-to-change-the-time-anacron-runs/comment-page-1/#comment-947 Mon, 18 Jul 2016 03:55:43 +0000 http://play.datalude.com/blog/?p=325#comment-947 In Ubuntu 16, this is actually in /etc/crontab

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