I'd like there to be a way to specify that a particular job be run by anacron or a similar facility if it is "missed" because the machine was down at the time the job is run. We could do this either via a mode bit (the sticky bit) or via a configuration file. If people like the idea of using the sticky bit, we could say:
- If an executable in /etc/cron.<period> or a configuration file in /etc/cron.d has the sticky bit set, the base system shall run the cron job after the system is booted if the cron job was missed because the machine was not running. Next, we should explicitly mention that multiple lined files are allowed for /etc/cron.d/<package>. Finally, we should make a statement about the timing of jobs run in /etc/cron.<period>. What exactly does "daily" mean? Does it mean once per day, or does it mean every 24 hours? Dan
