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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Inotify and (f)crontabs
From: Peter Gordon <codergeek42@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 impleme=
nted,=20
> if you happen to routinely shut your machine off at the time that the cro=
njob=20
> is supposed to fire, then the standard you proposed will pretty much neve=
r=20
> fire.  the run-crons implementation however has a pretty good guarantee t=
hat=20
> the periodic crons will get fired at the next uptime opportunity.

Isn't this perfectly what anacron is intended for?
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