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Anacron is a very handy utility to run scripts in regular periods in machines that are not turned on 24/7. It is actually very simple to use, but I found that there were very few resources describing how to actually set up an Anacron job. Setting up an anacron job in Ubuntu is as simple …
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Here are some basic concepts on how to set cron jobs in Ubuntu 12.04. 1. The crontab The crontab is the file that contain entries for each scheduled job, more information at Ubuntu’s Cron How To. In order to edit the current user’s crontab use: To edit the root’s crontab: In this case we will …