anacron and users crontab

[Frautoincnam]

Hi,

anacron is a good way to launch the content of /etc/cron.{daily,weekly,monthly} if the machine is not always on.
But, what is the best and natural way to make it launch users (particularly root) crontab too ?

I'd prefer to not have to multiply things and have only one place to modify a task, the crontab.

[szatox]

I suppose this depends on anachron implementation you're using. It may not be as standardized as cron is.
Anyway, check out /etc/crontab and /etc/anacrontab; /etc/crontab expects you to define target user (unlike users' crontabs, which can be modified by users with crontab -e and reside somewhere in /var, with one file per user, so not one place anymore). In case of anacron, you might need to call your task via su/sudo manually instead of relying on daemon to drop privileges for you.

[Frautoincnam]

It's true that I made the mistake of not providing details.
I use cronie, with its own implementation of anacron.
so with /etc/anacrontab (default):

[szatox]

[Frautoincnam]

I understand thank you. I'm going to do it differently.
Note that the computer is almost never restarted (just for kernel update) since I systematically use suspend or hibernation.