FS#2505 - cron doesn't have a last_run routine

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Tuesday, 05 April 2005, 22:19 GMT
Last edited by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 02:17 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

hi
just found out that cron does only run it's cron daily jobs at 0:00. If your Pc is not turned on at this time it will never be run.
other distros have workarounds for that, gentoo debian and Suse perhaps we should add something like that too.
Good idea or bad idea?
   PKGBUILD (1.3 KiB)
   run-crons-0.3.2 (3 KiB)
   root.crontab (0.4 KiB)
(application/octet-stream)    PKGBUILD (1.1 KiB)
(application/octet-stream)    anacrond (0.4 KiB)
(application/octet-stream)    anacrond.logrotate (0.1 KiB)
(application/octet-stream)    anacrontab (0.2 KiB)
(application/octet-stream)    run-anacron (0.1 KiB)
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Closed by  Dan McGee (toofishes)
Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 02:17 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  use anacron or fcron
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Wednesday, 06 April 2005, 09:55 GMT
proposal to solve that issue is attached.
solution is borrowed from gentoo
Comment by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Tuesday, 12 April 2005, 15:11 GMT
You can also use anacron. It runs on boot up. I will attach the PKGBUILD and needed files.
Comment by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Tuesday, 12 April 2005, 22:19 GMT
I just notice that there should be another sed line in the PKGBUILD:
sed -i 's|/usr/sbin/sendmail|/usr/bin/sendmail|' $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver/global.h

Probably because of a ssmtp upgrade. :?
Sorry about that.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Saturday, 25 November 2006, 13:04 GMT
Status?

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