Causing Anacron jobs to run immediatelyEdit

Can do this for testing purposes:

# anacron -fn           # kick off the jobs
# tail -f /var/log/cron # monitor the logs

ie.

• -f to force execution, ignoring timestamps.
• -n to ignore delay specifications (not sure if this is actually needed, but as you can see I used it anyway).
• -s (implied by -n) to run jobs serially instead of in parallel.

Via: https://askubuntu.com/a/761675