Jan Camenisch wrote: >There might be a problem with the execution >of the cron.daily, cron.weekly, and cron.monthly : >An machines that don't run all day, these cron jobs get >rarely executed. >For instance, I usually use my maschine only in the >evenings at home (i.e. later than 6 pm). But all cron >get executed at 6pm. Therefore these cron task get never >executed. > >How about a (cron) job, that executed every time the >machine gets booted and that checks when the cron jobs >were executed for the last time. If these for were not >executed for say two days (weeks, months) then they >get executed regardless the actual hour, day, week of month.
I heard of a program called anacron to solve just this problem, but I don't think it's available as a Debian package, yet. Maybe someone here knows where to get it? Otherwise, you could try comp.unix.admin or gopher. Casper Boden-Cummins. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]