>> The challenge: monitor a page every 5 months. >> $ cat /etc/anacrontab >> 150 33 jidanni.nerd wwwoffle -F http://nerdclub.bla/login
>>>>> "mi" == mi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mi> Maybe edit /etc/crontab with /5 option (every 5 month), invoking [ mi> (ppp) online ] && wwwoffle -F My machine is unplugged and cold most of each day, probably including the vital moment when month 5 arrives, also maybe this would only do May, Oct, May, Oct, also the machine making a special call behind my back would make me think it had been infected by daemons and would be an inefficient use of phone dollars. mi> Plus invoking cron (not anacron) from /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ ...cron here mi> checks about every 2 minutes, though. I thought only init(8) et al. invokes cron and anacron, but I may be out of date. Anyway, my anacron solution can be used on your machine, but your solution cannot be used on my machine.
