Re: PROPOSAL to serialize cron.{daily,weekly,monthly}

[Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net>]

On 08-Sep-04, 15:27 (CDT), Abdullah Ramazanoglu <ar018@yahoo.com> wrote: 
> Simply put, I have always found myself in need of running certain
> procedures at such precise times. I don't know how others manage.

vi /etc/crontab

That's what that file is for. The whole "drop a script into a directory"
mechanism is to support *packages*, so that the local admin can use
/etc/crontab w/o having to worry.

> Doesn't my proposal address this issue as well? Anacron and cron doesn't
> step on each other, cron manages precise timings with serialized batches,
> while anacron stands-by as the fallback. And its behavior is the same,
> independent of whether anacron is installed or not. I use it for more than
> a year and I'm happy with it so far.

No, it doesn't work that way. If anacron doesn't run the jobs, it's got
no idea when things have been run. If anacron *is* running the jobs,
then cron shouldn't.

If you have a setup that works for you, that's great. It sounds like
you've got a lot of extra stuff going on, which means you need custom
configuration. But the keyword there is "custom".

Steve

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