A system administrator needs to ensure a daily maintenance script runs on a Linux workstation. The workstation is frequently powered off outside of business hours. The administrator adds the following line to /etc/anacrontab to manage this task:
The correct answer is that 10 represents the delay in minutes. The /etc/anacrontab file has four fields: perioddelayjob-identifiercommand. The period is the frequency in days. The delay is the number of minutes anacron will wait after it starts before executing the job (if the job's period has passed). This delay prevents anacron jobs from consuming system resources immediately at boot. The job-identifier is a unique name for logging, and the command is the script to be executed. The value is not a job priority or a specific time of day, which are common misconceptions from other scheduling tools like nice and cron.
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