anacron reads a list of jobs from a configuration file, /etc/anacrontab (see anacrontab(5)). This file contains the list of jobs that anacron controls. Each job entry specifies a period in days, a delay in minutes, a unique job identifier, and a shell command. It uses a very different format from crontab(5).

• anacron reads a list of jobs from a configuration file, /etc/anacrontab (see anacrontab(5)). This file contains the list of jobs that anacron controls. Each job entry specifies a period in days, a delay in minutes, a unique job identifier, and a shell command. It uses a very different format from crontab(5).

SHELL=/bin/sh

PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

MAILTO=root

RANDOM_DELAY=45

START_HOURS_RANGE=3-22

#days delay job-id command

1 5 cron.daily nice run-parts /etc/cron.daily

7 25 cron.weekly nice run-parts /etc/cron.weekly

@monthly 45 cron.monthly nice run-parts /etc/cron.monthly