On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 09:38 -0700, Michael Nelson wrote:
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 12:12:53PM -0400, Ken Schneider wrote:
What ever happened to using the system clock to schedule cron jobs? Seemed to work correctly for how many years? Now you schedule based on how long ago a file was created which is rather short sighted to me. Like I have said in the past If it aint broke, don't fix it (break it)
My /etc/crontab prior to upgrading to 9.3 had these lines in it:
59 * * * * root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly 04 0 * * * root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily 29 1 * * 6 root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.weekly 44 1 1 * * root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.monthly
I added them back into the 9.3 one and now my cron jobs run when I want them to.
I wonder why that was removed in 9.3? It was actually changed in 9.2, I think even earlier as I see a run-crons file in my 9.0 system as well. I guess it has come down to, if it ain't broke let's see if we can break it.
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge