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Package: anacron (2.3-31ubuntu2)

cron-like program that doesn't go by time

Anacron (like "anac(h)ronistic") 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. You should install this program if your system isn't powered on 24 hours a day to make sure the maintenance jobs of other Debian packages are executed each day.

Packages providing anacron

systemd-cron
systemd units to provide cron daemon & anacron functionality

Other Packages Related to anacron

  • depends
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  • dep: debianutils
    Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian
  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.34)
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
  • dep: lsb-base (>= 3.0-10)
    Linux Standard Base init script functionality

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