On Mon, 18 Oct 2021, 22:05:21 +0200, Oliver Schwabedissen wrote:
[...] No, not the OP, I am using BIOS to wake up the PC (no laptop) in the night to backup local data to my NAS and run some other scripts..
Cron works fine using /usr/libexec/cron/run-crons. Will check anachron, as the system is not running 24/7. However, I need support for time zones in cron scripts as the backup should always start at 2am UTC (BIOS clock is running on UTC), although in live in CET (currently CEST).
E.g. crontab for root contains entries like this:
# Cron jobs UTC timezone CRON_TZ=':UTC' # Backup daily 05 2 * * * ... ...
# Cron jobs Berlin timezone CRON_TZ=':Europe/Berlin' ...
Not sure if anachron supports different time zones, though.
"cron" (== cronie) remains installed, so no need to worry. /etc/crontab will still be dealt with by "cron".
Regards,
Oliver
HTH, cheers. l9er manfred