On May 15, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote [problems when cron jobs are never executed on systems that aren't switched on 24hrs/day ?] > Could this be harmful?
AFAIK: not really. It does mean that logs keep on growing, but that's easily cured. > I think a lot of people using linux at home don't leave their computer > switched on continuously. Has anyone ever thought of a system that > would spot missed cron events and run them at a later time? Would this > be useful at all? Something like that has already been implemented: Debian's "anacron" package (in unstable/admin). HTH, Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .