Re: missed cron jobs
On Thu, 15 May 1997, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
> This morning I worked on my home debian system at a very early time
> (for me, that is), from 6:30 a.m on. All of a sudden my hard disk
> begins to crackle, opening a new window takes longer than normal (I
> have a lowly 486DX100), and after starting top I see that `nobody' is
> running `find' (it's amazing, isn't it ? :). I soon realized that this
> was cron running the cron.daily scripts. I never thought about this
> before, but it may very well have been the first time these scripts
> were run, my computer at home is usually switched off at this time.
> Now comes my question:
>
> Could this be harmful?
>
> 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?
>
> Eric Meijer
>
> --
My computer is at home and I have noticed the noisy disk activity to. It
seems to be associated with syslogd being restarted.
May 15 06:43:35 macrae syslogd 1.3-0#13: restart.
How can I schedule this job for a more appropriate time?
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John Maheu
Queen's University
Dept. of Economics
Kingston ON
Canada
K7L 3N6
email: maheuj@qed.econ.queensu.ca
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