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Re: wtmp rotates two times a month



On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 10:52:05AM +1000, Brian May wrote:

> In /etc/anacrontab, it says that if the monthly activities 
> have not been run in the last 30 days, then it should run
> them NOW! However, July and August are 31 days... Som on
> the 31st anacron runs the monthly routines, and on the
> first of the next month, crontab reruns them again. Shouldn't
> /etc/anacrontab specify 31 days and not 30 days??

The Right Thing would probably be to have anacron know about calendar
months.

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