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Use anacron instead of cron
Authored by: Anonymous on Mar 10, '02 03:59:52AM

I installed anacron via Fink <http://fink.sourceforge.net/> and let it run the daily/weekly/monthly-scripts instead of cron. The good thing with anacron is that it understands that computers can by turned off or sleeping. It checks when the scripts was last run and if it is more than e.g. a day/week/month it will run them.

It's very easy to set up since the anacron setting file (from Fink) is prepared to do this. Just comment out the tasks in crontab and uncomment them in anacrontab. Then add a task in cron that will run anacron every once in a while. It works very well!



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