On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 09:38:37PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > Does cron work correctly in a system which is powered down periodically, > like a pc at home? If it does, why does anacron exist?
It doesn't, which is why anacron exists. By "doesn't", the usual problem is that if you have cron jobs scheduled for 6:30 am and your computer is always off from midnight to 7am, they won't get executed. With anacron, they won't get executed at 6:30 am since the system is off... but they will get executed roughly once a day. -- CueCat decoder .signature by Larry Wall: #!/usr/bin/perl -n printf "Serial: %s Type: %s Code: %s\n", map { tr/a-zA-Z0-9+-/ -_/; $_ = unpack 'u', chr(32 + length()*3/4) . $_; s/\0+$//; $_ ^= "C" x length; } /\.([^.]+)/g;