Yeah, but the person requesting advice say that he wanted the job to run at an off time since it tied the machine up for 40 minutes...
I guess whatever "floats your boat" is ok. My last job experience was a sysadm for a big AIX box. Scheduling cron jobs was part of my 'job experience' I think we had more stuff running during the night than regular work hours...
Jerry
On Apr 30, 2004, at 5:46 PM, Chris Devers wrote:
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Jerry LeVan wrote:
Anacron does not appear to run cron jobs at at particular time
Yeah, that's the whole point.
The emphasis shifts from "I want this maintainence script to run at 3:47
am every Sunday night" to "this maintainence script needs run once a
week, preferably when you're not doing anything else." More often than
not, the latter is all that's really required.
Anacron considers the problem from a different point of view, and for a
lot of people's needs, this may be more appropriate than the traditional
approach.
They come right out and say on their home page that this isn't meant to replace the traditional Cron system, but rather to supplement it for people with different usage patterns (laptops, people who turn their machine off at night, etc).
-- Chris Devers
