Re: syslogs not rotated - cron.daily never run because computer never up at 6:25am?

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:22:14 +0300
Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 04:56:29PM +0200, Malte Forkel wrote:

[snip]

> > Could it be that cron ignores its daily tasks if the machine is down at the 
> > time specified for cron.daily in /etc/crontab? I.e., if the machine is 
> > never up at 6:25am, the daily cron jobs are never executed? If that's the 
> > case, how do I schedule jobs that are truly executed every day, even if the 
> > machine only runs at irregular times?
> 
> Just install anacron.

Or fcron.

> Regards,
> Andrei

Celejar
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