Re: Unidentified subject!

[Kevin M Bealer <kmb203@psu.edu>]

On Wed, 15 May 1996, Gerry Jensen wrote:

> Does anyone know of an easy way to make it so that 
> cron.daily/weekly/monthly jobs get executed even if the system is not on 
> at the specified time?
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> 
> For instance, I typically only run my home system an hour or two per 
> day.  How could I make it so that the first time I boot my system each 
> day, /etc/cron.daily jobs gets run, the first time I boot each week that 
> /etc/cron.weekly gets run, and the first time I boot at the beginning of 
> a new month that /etc/cron.monthly gets run?  As it is now, these almost 
> never get run unless I do it manually.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gerry
> gerry@blue.intele.net

Try running a script like this out of your crontab (say once an hour).  It
should run things every day.  Even better, " date +%s > /var/local/today "
could be put in a script in /etc/cron.daily and this would then run only if
the regular mechanisms didn't.

Week and month scripts are left as an exercise :)

#!/bin/bash
if [ ! -f /var/local/today ]
then
  # this will cause it to run if the time-file disappears.
  date -d "2 day ago" +%s > /var/local/today
  exit 0
fi

if [ `date -d "1 day ago" +%s` -gt `cat /var/local/today` ]
then
  date +%s > /var/local/today
  run-parts /etc/cron.daily
fi

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