On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 02:58:46PM -0500, APseudoUtopia wrote: > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Christian Kastner <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2011-11-25 08:02, Jason Hellenthal wrote: > >> So with that said... is there a way we could actually make this run > >> @reboot only ?
> > Debian's cron[0] and Fedora's cronie[1] have solved this by touching a > > file on first startup and running @reboot only when this file does not > > yet exist. > I like this idea, however it has a major caveat: Assuming the shutdown > scripts remove said file (and the boot scripts create said file), what > happens in the event that the disk was umount'ed uncleanly? For > example, a power failure (I know, that's what UPSs are for, but lets > ignore that for a second). If the system is configured to > automatically boot after a power failure, the @reboot cron script wont > run (since the said file still exists...). The file can be stored in /var/run, which is cleared at boot. -- Jilles Tjoelker _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
