cron.daily et al.

[Jan Camenisch <camenisch@inf.ethz.ch>]

Hi,

There might be a problem with the  execution 
of the cron.daily, cron.weekly, and cron.monthly :
An machines that don't run all day, these cron jobs  get 
rarely executed. 
For instance, I usually use my maschine only in the
evenings at home (i.e. later than 6 pm). But all cron 
get executed at 6pm. Therefore these cron task get never
executed.

How about a (cron) job, that executed every time the
machine gets booted and that checks when the cron jobs
were executed for the last time. If these for were not 
executed for say two days (weeks, months) then they
get executed regardless the actual hour, day, week of month.

What do you people think?

--jan




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  Jan Camenisch                                                    
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