on Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 09:38:37PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi! > > Does cron work correctly in a system which is powered down periodically, > like a pc at home?
No. cron starts jobs at a specified time. > If it does, why does anacron exist? See above. anacron checks to see what jobs were skipped during downtime. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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