On Sun, May 17, 1998 at 06:39:12PM -0400, Urb LeJeune wrote:
> Question for one of the list's unix gurus.
>
> If a crontab job is scheduled for 01:00 everyday and the system is
> down at 01:00, does the job run when system is restarted or the next day
> at 01:00?
It depends on the cron implementation involved. Old ones won't;
newer ones will. Caveat: at least one implementation that I've
seen (and I can't recall which offhand) had a flag which toggled
its behavior between the two choices.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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