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
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
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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. Shouldn't it run as soon as the compute
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