On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:15:12AM -0800, richbl wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a question about cron and anancron. > > After reading the man page for both cron/crontab and anacron/ > anacrontab, it's not clear to me how to configure for the following: > > --jobs to run currently live in /etc/crontab > --jobs need to run serially (hence the staggered start times in > crontab) > > As I understand it, anacron will only run those jobs created as > scripts in the **ly folders (e.g. /etc/cron.weekly). > > So, my question is this: if I have periodic jobs to run in /etc/ > crontab, how do I have anacron run those jobs when cron fails to do so > (e.g. machine turned off)? > > It seems to me that the only way anacron will do what I expect it to > do is to move my jobs in /etc/crontab into /etc/cron.daily. Yet, if I > do that, I lose the ability to have jobs run serially (or at least run > the risk of having jobs overlap each other). I can't answer your cron/anacron questions directly, but why not just wrap your cron jobs in a script that runs them sequentially? then you can just run that script from cron/anacron and not worry about it. .02 A
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