[Wolves] Resuming cron jobs missed

[Ron Wellsted]

On Tuesday 14 October 2003 2:18 pm, Aquarius wrote:
> Wayne Morris spoo'd forth:
> > Hi
> >
> > Is there a way of getting cron jobs to start if they have been missed
> > due to system downtime?
>
> Get a better cron. Anacron does this fine, I believe...
>
> Aq -- unhelpful

AOL, Anacron will do the job provided the time scale is meausred in days 
(minimum 1 day) and it is used with the normal (Vixie) cron.  See 
http://anacron.sourceforge.net/ for details.

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