Thanks for that! Also, considering a job scheduled like
~ ~ * * * somecommand I'm assuming, provided that the cron daemon is not restarted, this would run the job at a single random point in each 24h period, right? A *different* point in time, each 24 period? On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 10:28:34AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > Yes. > > But that problem already existed with the minutes field being >close to > the moment cron was restarted. > > Only difference is now you don't know the minute. > > > Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri <andreas.kah...@abc.se> wrote: > > > Thanks for the ~ crontab(5) feature! > > > > Question: If the cron daemon is restarted (e.g. via reboot) during the > > interval during which a cron job may be randomly triggered, is there a > > risk (or even guarantee) that the job may run a second time? > > > > > > Regards, > > > > -- > > Andreas (Kusalananda) Kähäri > > SciLifeLab, NBIS, ICM > > Uppsala University, Sweden > > > > . > > -- Andreas (Kusalananda) Kähäri SciLifeLab, NBIS, ICM Uppsala University, Sweden .