RE: cron.daily et al.
Jan Camenisch wrote:
>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.
I heard of a program called anacron to solve just this problem, but I
don't think it's available as a Debian package, yet. Maybe someone here
knows where to get it? Otherwise, you could try comp.unix.admin or
gopher.
Casper Boden-Cummins.
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