What you're asking for is something that's a part of anacron, a completely different package. cron just calls whatever when the system clock hits the given time--if the system clock doesn't hit the time, cron doesn't do the scheduled event. anacron will call jobs that have been missed due to downtime. (anacron is in the main/<hardware>/admin directory)
On 18 Apr 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Hi all: > > I've set up a dayly cron job to run at 11 pm. It's supposed to gzip > some files on the system. > > It seems like if the computer is turned off at 11 pm, the job never > gets done. Shouldn't it run as soon as the computer is powered on in > case that it never got to run because it was off? > > Thanks! > > p.s. Output of my crontab -l: > > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. > # (/tmp/crontab.XXXXa01994 installed on Fri Apr 16 16:31:27 1999) > # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $) > 1 23 * * * gzip -r9 ~/Mail/mail/*/[0-9]* > > -- > Arcady Genkin > "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!
