anacrontab

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NAME
       /etc/anacrontab - configuration file for anacron

DESCRIPTION
       The  file /etc/anacrontab describes the jobs controlled by anacron(8).
       Its lines can be of three kinds:	 job-description  lines,  environment
       assignments, or empty lines.

       Job-description lines are of the form:

	  period  delay	 job-identifier	 command

       The  period is specified in days, the delay in minutes.	The job-iden-
       tifier can contain any non-blank character,  except  slashes.   It  is
       used  to identify the job in Anacron messages, and as the name for the
       job’s timestamp file.  The command can be any shell command.

       Environment assignment lines are of the form:

	  VAR = VALUE

       Spaces around VAR are removed.  No spaces  around  VALUE	 are  allowed
       (unless	you want them to be part of the value).	 The assignment takes
       effect from the next line to the end of	the  file,  or	to  the	 next
       assignment of the same variable.

       Empty  lines are either blank lines, line containing white-space only,
       or lines with white-space followed by a ’#’ followed by	an  arbitrary
       comment.

SEE ALSO
       anacron(8)

       The Anacron README file.

AUTHOR
       Itai Tzur <itzur@actcom.co.il>



Itai Tzur			  1998-02-02			ANACRONTAB(5)