Re: cron.daily et al.

1997-01-20 Thread Paul Seelig
On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: > Paul Seelig wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > > > > How about a (cron) job, that executed every time the > > > > machine gets booted and that checks when the cron jobs > > > > were executed for the last time. If these for were

Re: cron.daily et al.

1997-01-20 Thread Jan Camenisch
> I heard of a program called anacron to solve just this problem, but I > don't think it's available as a Debian package, yet. Maybe someone here > knows where to get it? Otherwise, you could try comp.unix.admin or > gopher. > That package is in project/experimental/anacron_1.0.1-3_all.deb I

Re: cron.daily et al.

1997-01-20 Thread Philippe Troin
On Mon, 20 Jan 1997 09:31:09 +0100 "Seak, Teng-Fong" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Paul Seelig wrote: > > > > On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > > > > > > How about a (cron) job, that executed every time the > > > > machine gets booted and that checks when the cron jobs > > > > we

Re: cron.daily et al.

1997-01-20 Thread Seak, Teng-Fong
Paul Seelig wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > > > > How about a (cron) job, that executed every time the > > > machine gets booted and that checks when the cron jobs > > > were executed for the last time. If these for were not > > > executed for say two days (weeks, mont

Re: cron.daily et al.

1997-01-17 Thread Joey Hess
> > How about a (cron) job, that executed every time the > > machine gets booted and that checks when the cron jobs > > were executed for the last time. If these for were not > > executed for say two days (weeks, months) then they > > get executed regardless the actual hour, day, week of month. >

Re: cron.daily et al.

1997-01-17 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Jan 17, Jan Camenisch wrote [cron suggestion for machines that don't run all day] > How about a (cron) job, that executed every time the > machine gets booted and that checks when the cron jobs > were executed for the last time. If these for were not > executed for say two days (weeks, months)

RE: cron.daily et al.

1997-01-17 Thread Casper BodenCummins
Jan Camenisch wrote: >There might be a problem with the execution >of the cron.daily, cron.weekly, and cron.monthly : >An machines that don't run all day, these cron jobs get >rarely executed. >For instance, I usually use my maschine only in the >evenings at home (i.e. later than 6 pm). But a

Re: cron.daily et al.

1997-01-17 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Jan Camenisch wrote: > Hi, > > There might be a problem with the execution > of the cron.daily, cron.weekly, and cron.monthly : > An machines that don't run all day, these cron jobs get > rarely executed. > For instance, I usually use my maschine only in the > evenings a