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Re: Best practices for cron jobs?



On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 08:46:42PM +0200, sean finney wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 June 2007 06:28:09 Duncan Findlay wrote:

> > I imagine it would be relatively simple to have the postinst generate
> > a random time during the day for a cron script to run, but this
> > doesn't work with anacron -- many users would never get updates.

> how would this break anacron?

If you're not using cron.{daily,weekly,whatever} then if the system is
not running at the time the job is due to go off it will not be run by
anacron when the system is next started.

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