Re: cron on a system without a hardware persistant clock

[fra-du@tourde.org (François TOURDE)]

Le 15244ième jour après Epoch,
David Goodenough écrivait:

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> I could use update-rc.d to disable cron, and only enable it 
> once wpa_supplicant has established the connection, but then
> what if the wireless link goes down and back up while the 
> hardware is powered up, in which case it would get restarted
> unnecessarily.
>
> Does anyone know if there is a way to tell and of the crons to
> ignore unset times?

You can take a look to anacron, which is designed for machines with
suspend/resume cycles.