title: Is anacron deprecated for Mac? How come I see no output when I run anacron?
body: <p>I'm running Mac OSX 10.10, Yosemite, and am trying to set up an anacron job that runs a python script weekly.</p>
  
  <p>My anacron tab is as follows:</p>
  
  <pre><code># /etc/anacrontab
  #period delay   job-identifier  command
  7       10      cron.test     /absolute/path/to/my/doc/test.py
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Nothing happens when I run sudo anacron -fn, and no timestamp file is created when I run anacron -u. The python script is executable, and I've included #!/usr/bin/env python at the top. How can I fix this and get anacron to run? </p>
  
  <p>P.S. - As an aside, I would prefer not to use launchd. What kind of program accepts its inputs in a pseudo-XML format in 2017??</p>