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By default what day does cron.weekly run [CLOSED]

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By default what day does cron.weekly run [CLOSED]
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posted Aug 18, 2013 by Garima Jain

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AFAIK there is no concept of a default day when it comes to running what is in cron.weekly.

The jobs in cron.weekly are run via anacron. This is controlled by /etc/anacrontab which only specifies only the period. You can tell the last date it was run by doing cat /var/spool/anacron/cron.weekly

answer Aug 18, 2013 by anonymous
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Read the following article,
http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2011/05/anacron-examples/

answer Aug 18, 2013 by Amit Parthsarthi
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