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ANACRONTAB(5)		      Anacron Users' Manual		   ANACRONTAB(5)

NAME
     /usr/local/etc/anacrontab - configuration file for anacron

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

     Job-description lines are of the form:

	period	delay  job-identifier  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 iden-
     tify the job in Anacron messages, and as the name for the	job's  timestamp
     file.  The command can be any shell command.

     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.

SEE ALSO
     anacron(8)

     The Anacron README file.

AUTHOR
     Itai Tzur <itzur@actcom.co.il>

Itai Tzur			   1998-02-02			   ANACRONTAB(5)

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