On Jan 17, Jan Camenisch wrote
[cron suggestion for machines that don't run all day]

> How about a (cron) job, that executed every time the
> machine gets booted and that checks when the cron jobs
> were executed for the last time. If these for were not 
> executed for say two days (weeks, months) then they
> get executed regardless the actual hour, day, week of month.

It looks a lot like you're reinventing the anacron package.

HTH,
Ray
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