Re: Dayly cron job

1999-04-19 Thread Jiri Baum
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

Re: Dayly cron job

1999-04-18 Thread John Galt
e been missed due to downtime. (anacron is in the main//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 a

Re: Dayly cron job

1999-04-18 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 03:30:58AM -0400, 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.

Dayly cron job

1999-04-18 Thread Arcady Genkin
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 w