NAME

       /etc/anacrontab - configuration file for anacron

DESCRIPTION

       The  file  /etc/anacrontab describes the jobs controlled by anacron(8).  Its lines can be of three kinds:
       job-description lines, environment assignments, or empty lines.

       Job-description lines are of one of these two forms:

          period  delay  job-identifier  command

          @period_name delay job-identify command

       The period is specified in days, the delay in minutes.  The  job-identifier  can  contain  any  non-blank
       character,  except  slashes.  It is used to identify the job in Anacron messages, and as the name for the
       job's timestamp file.  The command can be any shell command. The fields can be separated by blank  spaces
       or  tabs.  The period_name can only be set to monthly at the present time. This will ensure jobs are only
       run once a month, no matter the number of days in this month, or the previous month.

       Environment assignment lines are of the form:

          VAR = VALUE

       Spaces around VAR are removed.  No spaces around VALUE are allowed (unless you want them to  be  part  of
       the  value).   The  assignment  takes  effect  from  the next line to the end of the file, or to the next
       assignment of the same variable.

       Empty lines are either blank lines, line containing white-space only, or lines with white-space  followed
       by a '#' followed by an arbitrary comment.

       You can continue a line onto the next line by ending it with a '\'.

SEE ALSO

       anacron(8)

       The Anacron README file.

AUTHOR

       Itai Tzur <itzur@actcom.co.il>

       Currently maintained by Pascal Hakim <pasc@(debian.org|redellipse.net)>.