Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/03/2004 (13:38) : > > To my knowledge, you have to have the machine awake since crontab is > running against an internal clock. Once ACPI/APM put it to sleep, > nothing in the kernel code will wake it up. Only BIOS or LAN settings > will do that. > > You'll have to leave it on, or look into anacron to capture cron jobs > after it wakes up.
Yes, I was leaving it on that was the problem. However, yesterday I discovered a BIOS setting which I had misunderstood and it seems that this was my problem. After turning it off then the machine started working correctly :-) -- Rox-Filer; *the* file manager => http://rox.sf.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
