* Gerhard W. Gruber (2003-12-29 10:21 +0100)
> I want to have job that runs once a day when I power on my machine. With cron
> I have the problem that this has to be at a fixed time, yes? Since I switch my
> machine off when I don' t use it it can often happen that this will not run
> because the launchtime has been missed. I know that in Suse they had some
> mechanism for users like me, who don't let their machine run all the time.

> So is there something like that I can use in gentoo?

Just use the default vcron; it does that by default (at least for the
jobs in /etc/cron.[hourly|daily|weekly|monthly].

Thorsten


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