On 09/19/2014 03:09 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > No wait, that won't work. What you want to accomplish cannot be done > with a single crontab job. > > Use periodic/monthly like the other poster said or use anacron so the > job will run when the machine is next powered on. >
Actually, Gentoo's sys-process/cronbase is supposed to make sure that this happens. But the way it works is poorly (i.e. not) specified. This is one of my favorite old "seriously?" bugs: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69777
