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diff --git a/anacron/anacron.8 b/anacron/anacron.8
index 9070521917f050e0896ce61a1e583b4cc2275e60..4a19eeae29b4aa89685d53852570fce97c6bb85c 100644 (file)
--- a/anacron/anacron.8
+++ b/anacron/anacron.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH ANACRON 8 2004-07-11 "Pascal Hakim" "Anacron Users' Manual"
+.TH ANACRON 8 2009-03-24 "Marcela Mašláňová" "Anacron Users' Manual"
 .SH NAME
 anacron \- runs commands periodically
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ exists. If the LOGNAME environment variable is set, it will be used as From:
 field.
 .PP
 Informative messages about what Anacron is doing are sent to \fBsyslogd(8)\fR
-under facility \fBcron\fR, priority \fBnotice\fR.  Error messages are sent at
-priority \fBerror\fR.
+or \fBrsyslogd(8)\fR under facility \fBcron\fR, priority \fBnotice\fR.  Error 
+messages are sent at priority \fBerror\fR.
 .PP
 "Active" jobs (i.e. jobs that Anacron already decided
 to run and now wait for their delay to pass, and jobs that are currently
@@ -163,4 +163,5 @@ The current implementation is a complete rewrite by Itai Tzur
 The code base was maintained by Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@(debian.org|valinux.com)>.
 .PP
 Since 2004, it is maintained by Pascal Hakim <pasc@(debian.org|redellipse.net)>.
-
+.PP
+For Fedora is anacron maintained by Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano@redhat.com>.

diff --git a/anacron/anacrontab.5 b/anacron/anacrontab.5
index f7bc64a149d9f4ecd508910a78b6d19267dbca4f..e7262fc826f93fa79ac1aee6dc045637c285f66e 100644 (file)
--- a/anacron/anacrontab.5
+++ b/anacron/anacrontab.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH ANACRONTAB 5 2004-07-11 "Pascal Hakim" "Anacron Users' Manual"
+.TH ANACRONTAB 5 2009-03-24 "Marcela Mašláňová" "Anacron Users' Manual"
 .SH NAME
 /etc/anacrontab \- configuration file for anacron
 .SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -15,11 +15,20 @@ Job-description lines are of one of these two forms:
 .PP
    @period_name delay job-identify command
 .PP
-The
+The 
 .I period
-is specified in days, the
+is specified in days, the 
 .I delay
-in minutes.  The
+in minutes. In addition, if the 
+.I RANDOM_DELAY
+environment variable is set, then the value of 
+.I RANDOM_DELAY 
+is added to the delay. The value in 
+.I RANDOM_DELAY 
+denotes a maximal additional delay in minutes, where the minimum delay value is set, to user delay from anacrontab. A 
+.I RANDOM_DELAY 
+set to 12 would therefore add, randomly, between 0 and 12 minutes to the user defined delay.
+The
 .I job-identifier
 can contain any non-blank character, except slashes.  It is used to identify
 the job in Anacron messages,
@@ -42,12 +51,28 @@ are removed.  No spaces around
 .I 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.
+assignment of the same variable. The enviroment variable 
+.I START_HOURS_RANGE
+sets the time frame, when the job could started.
 .PP
 Empty lines are either blank lines, line containing white-space only, or
 lines with white-space followed by a '#' followed by an arbitrary comment.
 .PP
 You can continue a line onto the next line by ending it with a '\'.
+.SH EXAMPLE
+.nf
+# environment variables
+SHELL=/bin/sh
+PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
+MAILTO=root
+RANDOM_DELAY=60
+# Anacron jobs will start between 6 and 8 o'clock.
+START_HOURS_RANGE=6-8
+# delay will be 5 minutes + RANDOM_DELAY for cron.daily
+1              5       cron.daily              nice run-parts /etc/cron.daily
+7              8       cron.weekly             nice run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
+@monthly       35      cron.monthly            nice run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
+.fi
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .B anacron(8)
 .PP
@@ -58,3 +83,5 @@ file.
 Itai Tzur <itzur@actcom.co.il>
 .PP
 Currently maintained by Pascal Hakim <pasc@(debian.org|redellipse.net)>.
+.PP
+For Fedora maintained by Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano@redhat.com>.