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

[Malte Forkel <malte.forkel@berlin.de>]

Celejar schrieb:
> 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.

Thanks to all of you for your suggestions. I installed anacron. There already is a hook for it in /etc/crontab, so it seems to work right out of the box as a cron supplement without any configuration required.