On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 10:51:27PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Erik Steffl wrote:
and you are not supposed to turn off the computer! ever! :-))
Err... but how am I supposed to remove the lint inside the fans then? :P
best bet is to get hardware that doesn't need a
Thanks a lot to all people who taught me about cron vs anacron!
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 16:19:22 -0800, Erik Steffl wrote:
and you are not supposed to turn off the computer! ever! :-))
erik
Well, I was asking about my pc at home. From monday to friday I can only
spend two
Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
Thanks a lot to all people who taught me about cron vs anacron!
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 16:19:22 -0800, Erik Steffl wrote:
and you are not supposed to turn off the computer! ever! :-))
erik
Well, I was asking about my pc at home. From monday
Hi!
Does cron work correctly in a system which is powered down periodically,
like a pc at home? If it does, why does anacron exist?
Thanks in advance!
Marcelo
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Hi!
Does cron work correctly in a system which is powered down periodically,
like a pc at home? If it does, why does anacron exist?
cron runs jobs at certain times. So, the cron.daily scripts are set to run at
2 in the morning. If your machine is
if the system is down while something was scheduled to run, it will
not run.
there is a version of cron (don't remember the name) that runs
everything that should have been run but wasn't (because system was
down) right after the system starts, that might make anacron obsolete.
and you
on Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 09:38:37PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Hi!
Does cron work correctly in a system which is powered down periodically,
like a pc at home?
No. cron starts jobs at a specified time.
If it does, why does anacron exist?
See above. anacron
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 09:38:37PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi!
Does cron work correctly in a system which is powered down periodically,
like a pc at home? If it does, why does anacron exist?
It doesn't, which is why anacron exists.
By doesn't, the usual problem is that if you have
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Erik Steffl wrote:
there is a version of cron (don't remember the name) that runs
everything that should have been run but wasn't (because system was
down) right after the system starts, that might make anacron obsolete.
fcron, but it doesn't do ALL that Debian's cron
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