From: Peter Gordon <codergeek42@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Inotify and (f)crontabs
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 11:13:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1183831982.3484.1.camel@tuxhugs> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200707070423.35314.vapier@gentoo.org>
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On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 04:23 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> you missed a critical aspect: offline time. the way run-crons is implemented,
> if you happen to routinely shut your machine off at the time that the cronjob
> is supposed to fire, then the standard you proposed will pretty much never
> fire. the run-crons implementation however has a pretty good guarantee that
> the periodic crons will get fired at the next uptime opportunity.
Isn't this perfectly what anacron is intended for?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-07 18:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-01 14:48 [gentoo-dev] Inotify and (f)crontabs Ryan Reich
2007-07-01 17:07 ` [gentoo-dev] " Daniel Schömer
2007-07-01 17:30 ` Ryan Reich
2007-07-01 19:20 ` [gentoo-dev] " Daniel Schömer
2007-07-04 17:19 ` Ryan Reich
2007-07-04 20:58 ` [gentoo-dev] " Daniel Schömer
2007-07-06 8:39 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: " Steve Long
2007-07-07 15:36 ` Ryan Reich
2007-07-09 21:43 ` Ryan Reich
2007-07-10 0:35 ` Robert Buchholz
2007-07-07 8:23 ` [gentoo-dev] " Mike Frysinger
[not found] ` <2bd962720707070847h2b1084f7lcb5b844fe9b8db70@mail.gmail.com>
2007-07-07 17:19 ` Ryan Reich
2007-07-07 18:13 ` Peter Gordon [this message]
2007-07-08 3:21 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-07-08 4:07 ` Ryan Reich
2007-07-08 4:22 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-07-08 10:46 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2007-07-08 13:43 ` Ryan Reich
2007-07-08 13:50 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Reich
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