cron jobs not done during sleep

2007-09-17 Thread Steve Franks
Correct me if I'm wrong, but cron doesn't keep track of the last time something was done, does it? Which is to say if my system is crashed, was asleep, or powered off when a job is supposed to happen, it will not happen the next time the system is successfully operational, will it? It's not

Re: cron jobs not done during sleep

2007-09-17 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Correct me if I'm wrong, but cron doesn't keep track of the last time something was done, does it? Which is to say if my system is crashed, was asleep, or powered off when a job is supposed to happen, it will not happen the next time the system

Re: cron jobs not done during sleep

2007-09-17 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 08:22:45AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but cron doesn't keep track of the last time something was done, does it? Which is to say if my system is crashed, was asleep, or powered off when a job is supposed to happen, it will not happen the next

Re: cron jobs not done during sleep

2007-09-17 Thread RW
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:22:45 -0700 Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a tool or setting to implement this functionality? I want something to happen weekly, I don't care when. One way is to install a crontab replacement like fcron, but the easiest way to handle this is to install