On Friday 02 Jan 2004 00:40, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * Gerhard W. Gruber (2003-12-29 10:21 +0100) > > > 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? > > Just use the default vcron; it does that by default (at least for the > jobs in /etc/cron.[hourly|daily|weekly|monthly]. > True. Having already advised here that it was OK to have vixie-cron and anacron running together ( \me hangs head in shame as remembers that's how I think it was in Mandrake ;-( ) ... I tried it and found that jobs in /etc/cron.daily were running twice, started once by cron and 5 minutes later by anacron.
So I have unmerged anacron and apologise for giving bad advice here. Peter -- ====================================================================== Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.0.49-r18 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.6.0-gentoo-w4l) i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+ ====================================================================== -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
