Re: How anacron get started?

* solitone <[email protected]> [160712 12:50]:
> I can't really understand how anacron works on my laptop. How can
> anacron wake up and start every morning,
> when I don't turn off my laptop?
> 
> I've setup a backup process, taking advantage of backup2l. Apparently,
> when I don't shutdown my laptop,
> backup2l starts every morning at 7:30 am, I suppose thanks to anacron:
> 
> But what triggers anacron? Looking at my crontab, it would seem it's not
> cron that starts anacron:
> 

anacron is started by cron due to /etc/cron.d/anacron.

...Marvin