Anacron delay

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 10 April 2008 11:10, Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 11:00 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > I'm sure that I remember a thread from a long time ago about a delay
> > being introduced into anacron.  On my rawhide box the delay does seem
> > rather extreme, particularly since it doesn't necessarily run as many
> > hours as the other boxes.  Is there some way to influence this?
>
> Don't if involved or not, but try /etc/sysconfig/crontab as that might
> play a part.  I believe the bigger the number, the less of a delay, if I
> understood that correctly.
>
Thanks.  There's no indication of how the numbers scale, so I'll experiment.

Anne