On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:28:56 -0600
Robert Nichols wrote:
The best way to disable anacron is to edit /etc/anacrontab and
change the START_HOURS_RANGE to something impossible. I use
"START_HOURS_RANGE=25-25" on my laptop, where I prefer to run
the various daily, weekly
That's a way, I don't know about the best way. That's the exact
sort of thing someone might decide "Oh! That's impossible, he
couldn't mean that, let's just assume an obviously superior
value for the poor user who mis-configured his anacrontab." :-).