The 02.12.30 at 01:50, Tom Emerson wrote:
[heh heh heh -- that "insert sound" wasn't for you doing something boneheaded, it was for me in regards to the various developers that came up with this "scheme" -- like I said, run-crons duplicates what cron does in the first place, with a LOT more "confusion" than need be --
Not exactly. The idea of run-crun is to make sure that certain things run at least once a day, or a week, or whatever interval, regardless of the hours the machine is actually on. I mean, if you switch the computer off at 18:00 hours, and power it on two days later at, say, 10:00, the daily scripts will then run at 10:15. There is another cron daemon designed for that, I think it is called anacron, or something like that. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson