hc-cron [Re: anacron/apm issue]
On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 02:41:20PM -0700, Simon Michael wrote:
> I seek advice on the following apparent problem in the latest potato:
>
> Problem: if you suspend your laptop for more than 3 hours, cron
> ignores any jobs scheduled during the interval. Therefore if, for
> example, you suspend each night and start work around 10, your 0730
> anacron invocation will never run. Nor will your 0342 dlocate db
> update.
>
> Fix: add an extra anacron invocation on wakeup, in /etc/apm/event.d.
> Also move daily jobs from /etc/crontab & /etc/cron.d to
> /etc/cron.daily where appropriate, so they will be run by anacron in
> the above case.
>
> Questions:
> 1. is the above analysis correct ?
> 2. if so, where should the bugreport(s) go - cron/anacron/apmd/dlocate ?
Just so you know, someone has written a cron replacement called "hc-cron"
that solves this problem:
http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1998/08/28/904294419.html
However, it doesn't seem to be debian-packaged, even though it's GPL.
Anyone want to get started on this?
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Colin Walters <levanti@verbum.org>
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