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use anacron if you sleep the machine
Authored by: pzwack on Feb 21, '03 04:30:52AM

The fink project has an alternate cron program called anacron.
Properly configured, it will run your script on midnight, or as soon as the machine is woken up afterwards.

Well, no fink on this machine, so I can't verify right now.

OTOH, will the script update iCal if the somebody else is logged in?



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use anacron if you sleep the machine
Authored by: greggo on Feb 21, '03 11:52:17AM

It will update it for all users, as long as the crontab file username under "who" is root.



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