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diff -up anacron-2.3/anacron.8.aux anacron-2.3/anacron.8
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--- anacron-2.3/anacron.8.aux 2009-03-24 14:16:39.000000000 +0100
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+++ anacron-2.3/anacron.8 2009-03-24 14:22:41.000000000 +0100
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
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-.TH ANACRON 8 2004-07-11 "Pascal Hakim" "Anacron Users' Manual"
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+.TH ANACRON 8 2009-03-24 "Marcela Mašláňová" "Anacron Users' Manual"
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.SH NAME
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anacron \- runs commands periodically
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ exists. If the LOGNAME environment varia
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field.
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.PP
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Informative messages about what Anacron is doing are sent to \fBsyslogd(8)\fR
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-under facility \fBcron\fR, priority \fBnotice\fR. Error messages are sent at
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-priority \fBerror\fR.
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+or \fBrsyslogd(8)\fR under facility \fBcron\fR, priority \fBnotice\fR. Error
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+messages are sent at priority \fBerror\fR.
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.PP
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"Active" jobs (i.e. jobs that Anacron already decided
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to run and now wait for their delay to pass, and jobs that are currently
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@@ -163,4 +163,5 @@ The current implementation is a complete
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The code base was maintained by Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@(debian.org|valinux.com)>.
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.PP
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Since 2004, it is maintained by Pascal Hakim <pasc@(debian.org|redellipse.net)>.
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-
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+.PP
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+For Fedora is anacron maintained by Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano@redhat.com>.
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diff -up anacron-2.3/anacrontab.5.aux anacron-2.3/anacrontab.5
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--- anacron-2.3/anacrontab.5.aux 2009-03-24 14:16:39.000000000 +0100
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+++ anacron-2.3/anacrontab.5 2009-03-24 14:23:39.000000000 +0100
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-.TH ANACRONTAB 5 2004-07-11 "Pascal Hakim" "Anacron Users' Manual"
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+.TH ANACRONTAB 5 2009-03-24 "Marcela Mašláňová" "Anacron Users' Manual"
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.SH NAME
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/etc/anacrontab \- configuration file for anacron
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.PP
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@period_name delay job-identify command
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.PP
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-The
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+The
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.I period
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-is specified in days, the
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+is specified in days, the
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.I delay
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-in minutes. The
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+in minutes. In addition, if the
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+.I RANDOM_DELAY
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+environment variable is set, then the value of
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+.I RANDOM_DELAY
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+is added to the delay. The value in
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+.I RANDOM_DELAY
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+denotes a maximal additional delay in minutes, where the minimum delay value is set, to user delay from anacrontab. A
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+.I RANDOM_DELAY
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+set to 12 would therefore add, randomly, between 0 and 12 minutes to the user defined delay.
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+The
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.I job-identifier
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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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.I VALUE
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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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+assignment of the same variable. The enviroment variable
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+.I START_HOURS_RANGE
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+sets the time frame, when the job could started.
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.PP
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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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.PP
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You can continue a line onto the next line by ending it with a '\'.
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+.SH EXAMPLE
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+.nf
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+# environment variables
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+SHELL=/bin/sh
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+PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
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+MAILTO=root
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+RANDOM_DELAY=60
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+# Anacron jobs will start between 6 and 8 o'clock.
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+START_HOURS_RANGE=6-8
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+# delay will be 5 minutes + RANDOM_DELAY for cron.daily
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+1 5 cron.daily nice run-parts /etc/cron.daily
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+7 8 cron.weekly nice run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
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+@monthly 35 cron.monthly nice run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
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+.fi
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.B anacron(8)
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.PP
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Itai Tzur <itzur@actcom.co.il>
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.PP
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Currently maintained by Pascal Hakim <pasc@(debian.org|redellipse.net)>.
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+.PP
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+For Fedora maintained by Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano@redhat.com>.
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