On Saturday 07 July 2007, Peter Gordon wrote: > On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 04:23 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > you missed a critical aspect: offline time. the way run-crons is > > implemented, if you happen to routinely shut your machine off at the time > > that the cronjob is supposed to fire, then the standard you proposed will > > pretty much never fire. the run-crons implementation however has a > > pretty good guarantee that the periodic crons will get fired at the next > > uptime opportunity. > > Isn't this perfectly what anacron is intended for?
yes and no ... anacron is designed with this issue in mind, but as the homepage of anacron explains, it does not replace the normal cron functionality and as such cannot be used on its own -mike
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