2015-04-11 2:35 GMT+02:00 LRN <lrn1...@gmail.com>: > On 11.04.2015 0:55, Frank Fesevur wrote: >> 2015-04-10 22:38 GMT+02:00 Andrew DeFaria: >>>> $ man 5 crontab >>>> >>>> See @reboot >>>> >>>> Never used it but I assume it will run after cron service is started.
Yes it is. After reading again the man, reboot is referred to the start / restart of the cron service itself, not to the status of the reboot machine. >>> >>> I haven't used it either, but I saw it there. Makes you wonder what would >>> happen if you simply restarted the service or stopped it and then started it >>> again. >> >> Have cron installed on my laptop so I just tested. And yes, that is >> how @reboot works on Cygwin. It runs the job right after the cron >> daemon is started, regardless how many times you restart the service. >> >> On Linux it seems to detect that the system really was rebooted. >> > > Or, if you have a lot of memory, install ImDisk, create a disk and move temp > directory onto it. It's guaranteed to not to survive reboots. Also, it's > probably faster than having temp directory on a real disk. > > > -- > O< ascii ribbon - stop html email! - www.asciiribbon.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
