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where anacron gets called?

Asked by Hans van den Bogert

if I boot my pc, cron gets started
if I don't, a cron job will call anacron everyday (or whatever)

If I suspend my computer, and wake it up thereafter, then when does ubuntu call anacron?

I never see adept (I use kde) notify me with new updates when recovering from suspend, yet it does when starting with a cold boot
btw I am using a desktop.

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Hans van den Bogert (hbogert) said : 		#1

ahh! does /etc/acpi/resume.d have something to do with this ?

still doesn't explain why I never get the adept notifications when I don't cold-reboot

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#2

hello

Anacron is a periodic command scheduler. It executes commands at intervals specified in days. Unlike cron, it does not assume that the system is running continuously. It can therefore be used to control the execution of daily, weekly and monthly jobs (or anything with a period of n days), on systems that don't run 24 hours a day. When installed and configured properly, Anacron will make sure that the commands are run at the specified intervals as closely as machine-uptime permits.

This package is pre-configured to execute the daily jobs of the Debian system.

Note: You should install this program if your system isn't powered on 24 hours a day to make sure the maintenance jobs of other ubuntu packages are executed each day.

For more info on anacron ref:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacron

Bhavani Shankar.

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