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On Monday 29 December 2003 09:21, Gerhard W. Gruber wrote:
> I want to have job that runs once a day when I power on my machine. With
> cron I have the problem that this has to be at a fixed time, yes? Since I
> switch my machine off when I don' t use it it can often happen that this
> will not run because the launchtime has been missed. I know that in Suse
> they had some mechanism for users like me, who don't let their machine run
> all the time.
>
> So is there something like that I can use in gentoo? I could put that
> script in a runlevel, but then it will run everytime I reboot. Is there an
> easy way to limit it to once per day?

You can stick any jobs you wish to run on startup in /etc/conf.d/local.start, 
and conversly jobs to run on shutdown in /etc/conf.d/local.stop

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Mike Williams
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