Arcady Genkin:
> It seems like if the computer is turned off at 11 pm, the job never gets
> done.

That's right.

> Shouldn't it run as soon as the computer is powered on in case that it
> never got to run because it was off?

To get that, you can:

        a) check out the anacron package, or

        b) make a boot-up script that checks whether the job has been done
        in the last ~24 hours, and does it if it hasn't been (and it's not
        almost 11pm anyway)


Jiri
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