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NAME

6       /etc/anacrontab - configuration file for anacron
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DESCRIPTION

9       The  file  /etc/anacrontab describes the jobs controlled by anacron(8).
10       Its lines can be of three kinds:   job-description  lines,  environment
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13       Job-description lines are of the form:
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15          period  delay  job-identifier  command
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17       The period is specified in days, the delay in minutes.  The job-identi‐
18       fier can contain any non-blank character, except slashes.  It  is  used
19       to  identify the job in Anacron messages, and as the name for the job's
20       timestamp file.  The command can be any shell command.
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22       Environment assignment lines are of the form:
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26       Spaces around VAR are removed.  No  spaces  around  VALUE  are  allowed
27       (unless  you  want them to be part of the value).  The assignment takes
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29       assignment of the same variable.
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31       Empty  lines  are either blank lines, line containing white-space only,
32       or lines with white-space followed by a '#' followed  by  an  arbitrary
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SEE ALSO

36       anacron(8)
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38       The Anacron README file.
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AUTHOR

41       Itai Tzur <itzur@actcom.co.il>
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45Itai Tzur                         1998-02-02                     ANACRONTAB(5)