* 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 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list