-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- Mike Williams -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/8APnInuLMrk7bIwRAscTAJ9+tW0BepVOS2cn3ZJGWc38sbMR8ACfSYVc wsfiBY5/546Ht0EPJcsVwjA= =Qmfs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
