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     1.4 +Anacron is a periodic command scheduler. It executes commands at intervals 
     1.5 +specified in days. Unlike cron, it does not assume that the system is running 
     1.6 +continuously. It can therefore be used to control the execution of daily, 
     1.7 +weekly and monthly jobs (or anything with a period of n days), on systems 
     1.8 +that don't run 24 hours a day. When installed and configured properly, 
     1.9 +Anacron will make sure that the commands are run at the specified intervals 
    1.10 +as closely as machine-uptime permits.
    1.11 +
    1.12 +Every time Anacron is run, it reads a configuration file that specifies the 
    1.13 +jobs Anacron controls, and their periods in days. If a job wasn't executed in
    1.14 +the last n days, where n is the period of that job, Anacron executes it. 
    1.15 +Anacron then records the date in a special timestamp file that it keeps for 
    1.16 +each job, so it can know when to run it again. When all the executed commands 
    1.17 +terminate, Anacron exits.