Lucky, On Sunday 14 August 2005 19:40, Lucky Leavell wrote:
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(I still don't see the advantage of using crontab to run the run-crons script which then runs the various cron.x scripts. It would seem to be much easier to see what is going on at a glance running, for example, cron.daily at the specified time direct from the crontab without having to go through all these other contortions just to get it to run when I want it to. In fact, I may just do that and comment out the run-crons entry.
The reason for doing it they way SUSE Linux does it is that many SUSE installations do not run 24 hours-per-day, and thus picking a fixed time to run daily or weekly cron jobs would fail on many user's systems. As it is, if the system is not up when the appointed hour arrives, the periodic tasks will still be run as soon after the scheduled time as the system is again up and running.
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Lucky
Randall Schulz