Delayed cronjobs

2008-05-30 Thread Jos Chrispijn
Let's say my system has been down for one day. Is it possible to automatically (re)start cronjobs on system startup that should have been run the day before? -- Jos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Delayed cronjobs

2008-05-30 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Friday 30 May 2008 11:19:10 Jos Chrispijn wrote: Let's say my system has been down for one day. Is it possible to automatically (re)start cronjobs on system startup that should have been run the day before? -- Jos ___

Re: Delayed cronjobs [SOLVED]

2008-05-30 Thread Jos Chrispijn
Hi Michael, Thanks for sharing, just what I needed! -- Jos Michael Rudolph wrote: you might want to have a look at anacron(8). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Delayed cronjobs

2008-05-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:19:10AM +0200, Jos Chrispijn wrote: Let's say my system has been down for one day. Is it possible to automatically (re)start cronjobs on system startup that should have been run the day before? You can write the sccript that your cronjob starts so that it keeps

Re: Delayed cronjobs

2008-05-30 Thread Jos Chrispijn
Hi Jerry, Jerry McAllister wrote: You can write the sccript that your cronjob starts so that it keeps track of when it was last run and then either have cron run it often or add it to /usr/local/etc/rc.d to be run at startup. That would be a good option as well; I didn't think of that.