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| Original author(s) | Christian Schwarz |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Itai Tzur, Pascal Hakim, Marcela Mašláňová (Red Hat) |
| Stable release | 2.3
/ June 22, 2000 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Platform | POSIX |
| Type | Job scheduler |
| Website | sf |
anacron is a computer program that performs periodic command scheduling, which is traditionally done by cron, but without assuming that the system is running continuously. Thus, it can 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. anacron was originally conceived and implemented by Christian Schwarz in Perl, for the Unix operating system. It was later rewritten in C by Itai Tzur; maintainers have included Sean 'Shaleh' Perry and Pascal Hakim.[1]
Since 2009, Red Hat's cron implementation, cronie, has included anacron.[2][3] Since then, anacron has been updated by Red Hat as a part of cronie.[4]
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- ^ "Initial upload of anacron-2.3 which should be optimized for better · cronie-crond/cronie@55f4057". GitHub.
- ^ "7.33. cronie - Red Hat Customer Portal". 2018-03-31. Archived from the original on 2018-03-31. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
- ^ "cronie-crond/cronie - ChangeLog". GitHub. Retrieved 2018-03-31.