DESCRIPTION

       The  file  /usr/local/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 the form:

          period  delay  job-identifier  command

       The period is specified in days, the delay in minutes.  The job-identi-
       fier 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.

       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)