Re: missed cron jobs
On May 15, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote
[problems when cron jobs are never executed on systems that aren't switched
on 24hrs/day ?]
> Could this be harmful?
AFAIK: not really. It does mean that logs keep on growing, but that's easily
cured.
> I think a lot of people using linux at home don't leave their computer
> switched on continuously. Has anyone ever thought of a system that
> would spot missed cron events and run them at a later time? Would this
> be useful at all?
Something like that has already been implemented: Debian's "anacron" package
(in unstable/admin).
HTH,
Ray
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