On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 04:23 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > you missed a critical aspect: offline time. the way run-crons is > implemented, > if you happen to routinely shut your machine off at the time that the cronjob > is supposed to fire, then the standard you proposed will pretty much never > fire. the run-crons implementation however has a pretty good guarantee that > the periodic crons will get fired at the next uptime opportunity.
Isn't this perfectly what anacron is intended for? -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) Gentoo Forums Global Moderator GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC19479 / Fingerprint: DD68 A414 56BD 6368 D957 9666 4268 CB7A FFC1 9479 My Blog: http://thecodergeek.com/blog/
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