On 7/26/05, Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:50:34 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Pascal Hakim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> The main 'disadvantage' of anacron, is that it's set up by default to > >> only run /etc/cron.{daily,weekly,monthly}. It won't take care of running > >> normal cron jobs that would have been scheduled to run otherwise, and > >> didn't run because the computer wasn't on. > > > >Will you report a bug or shall I? > > How can anacron decide whether it is ok to run a hourly cron job once > or n times, or whether a cron job is only meaningful if it is run at > the right time and does more harm being run at the wrong time than > being missed altogether?
Isn't it the responsibility of the job itself to check for that (if it does more harm than good)? Timing guarantees are rarely given.