Some members of the cron family take into account the possibility of this very scenario. For example, anacron (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacron) does not assume that the system runs continuously and can run "missed" jobs when power is restored. There may be other implementations of cron that do similar.
~David Klann On 05/12/2018 11:53 AM, drew Roberts wrote: > Just wondering if any has any clever solutions for this before I spend > too much time trying to hack up a sub optimal solution. > > > I have a cron job that runs once a night with something like this being > run in the shell script that is invoked from it: > > /usr/bin/rdlogmanager -g -s ONAIR -d 5 > > > Sometimes the power is off in the night at the time the cron job should > run. Then later in the week, there is no log to chain to and we get silence. > > So, I figure there must be a bunch of ways to deal with this > automatically. I am wondering if anyone has already come op with an > elegant (and automatic - as in non-human involved) solution to this problem. > > all the best, > > drew > -- > Enjoy great *Bahamian Music* at: > Bahamian Or Nuttin - http://www.bahamianornuttin.com > <http://www.bahamianornuttin.com/> > > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >
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