[Gllug] Advanced versions of cron for scheduling

Russell Howe rhowe at siksai.co.uk
Sat Jul 16 12:09:52 UTC 2005


On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 10:29:22AM +0100, James McGuigan wrote:
> If you want to keep all the config in the crontab file, then maybe a 
> put a comment at the end of the line with the word "bootup" (or any 
> other unique keyword) and have a small boot time script that reads 
> the relevant parts from the crontab.

Certainly with the cron included in Debian, you can just use '@reboot'
as the time spec.

see crontab(5)
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