[lug] crontabs that don't run

[Collins Richey]

On 2/1/07, karl horlen <horlenkarl at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> My question is this.  If the system isn't turned on
> during the time that cron.daily is configured to fire,
> does that job just never get run or will it cue at a
> DIFFERENT TIME the NEXT TIME you turn the computer on?
>

The question is: do you only have cron or anacron as well? Most/many
systems these days run anacron as well, and that utility is
responsible for "catching up" on cron work that should have been done
while your system was powered off.


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