Hi all, CentOs has choosen anacron as default cron daemon. I did not look further about the reasons, I think there are some good reasons. I want to create a minute based set of scripts. No much precision required, once a minute more or less 20 sec is OK. Using anacron, how do you recommend to do it? Is anacron the right tool? Otherwise what's the right tool? -- RMA.
On 2012-04-03, Mihamina Rakotomandimby <mihamina at rktmb.org> wrote:> > CentOs has choosen anacron as default cron daemon.I'm pretty sure anacron does not replace Vixie cron/cronie; last I checked anacron requires some other crond. Thus:> I want to create a minute based set of scripts....just use cron. If anacron is installed, Vixie cron almost certainly is as well. --keith -- kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us
On 3/04/2012 5:16 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:> Hi all, > > CentOs has choosen anacron as default cron daemon. > I did not look further about the reasons, I think there are some good > reasons.anacron is used on desktops and laptops which are not powered 24/7 - it executes the missed cron jobs soon after boot. It doesn't replace the regular crond, which executes jobs if the machine is up at the scheduled time.> > I want to create a minute based set of scripts. > > No much precision required, once a minute more or less 20 sec is OK. >If it's that rough, then see man 1 sleep. -- Best, --- Les Bell [+61 2 9451 1144] [http://www.lesbell.com.au]