Re: [Hampshire] Laptop cron jobs

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Author: Benjamin A'Lee
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Laptop cron jobs

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On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 12:01:19AM +0100, Steve Kirk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just wondering how others deal with cron jobs on their laptops. E.g. the
> default jobs that most distros seem to drop into some kind of daily or
> weekly cron job to update things such as the slocate db.
>
> Inevitably the laptop is off when the scripts are scheduled to run, so
> do you run them manually? Set them to run in the background at boot
> time? Any other ideas?


anacron exists for just this purpose. It'll check at boot whether
any cron jobs should have run whilst powered off, and run them.

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