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[ Source: anacron ]

Package: anacron (2.3-30)

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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.

Tags: System Administration: Automation and Scheduling, Implemented in: C, User Interface: Daemon, Role: role::program, scope::utility

Packages providing anacron

systemd-cron: systemd units to provide cron daemon & anacron functionality

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dep: debianutils (>= 1.7)

Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian
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 init script functionality

rec: cron

process scheduling daemon
also a virtual package provided by bcron

or cron-daemon

virtual package provided by bcron, cron, systemd-cron

sug: default-mta

virtual package provided by exim4-daemon-light

or mail-transport-agent

virtual package provided by courier-mta, dma, esmtp-run, exim4-daemon-heavy, exim4-daemon-light, msmtp-mta, nullmailer, opensmtpd, postfix, sendmail-bin, ssmtp
sug: powermgmt-base

common utils for power management
sug: rsyslog

reliable system and kernel logging daemon

or system-log-daemon

virtual package provided by busybox-syslogd, inetutils-syslogd, rsyslog, socklog-run, syslog-ng-core

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Architecture	Package Size	Installed Size	Files
amd64	34.2 kB	104.0 kB	[list of files]