On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 10:26:14 -0400
Matthew Miller wrote:
If you care about the *particular* time that a job runs, rather than
just wanting to make sure it gets run once in a certain period,
cron.daily and cron.weekly are not for you. Instead, drop a file in
/etc/cron.d with the traditional
Or utterly eradicate anacron and move the daily and weekly
jobs back to /etc/crontab (formatting the lines appropriately
for the system crontab file, mind you).
That what I do, and I copy /dev/null over:
/etc/cron.d/0hourly /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron /etc/anacrontab
That way the scourge of anacron is gone forever :-).