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Package: anacron (2.3-13.1ubuntu10)

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Maintainer:

Please consider filing a bug or asking a question via Launchpad before contacting the maintainer directly.

Original Maintainer (usually from Debian):

  • Pascal Hakim

It should generally not be necessary for users to contact the original maintainer.

Similar packages:

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.

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  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.7)
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
  • dep: lsb-base (>= 3.0-10)
    Linux Standard Base 4.0 init script functionality
  • dep: upstart-job
    virtual package provided by upstart

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Architecture Package Size Installed Size Files
amd64 32.7 kB224 kB [list of files]
i386 31.1 kB220 kB [list of files]