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On Tuesday 10 June 2008, Teng Wang wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> Thank you very much. But how I can use @reboot? It |
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> might be good if I just run fetchmail once after rebooting. |
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I don't understand your question, the man page clearly tells you how to |
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use it: |
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Replace the first five columns in a crontab file with '@reboot' and cron |
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will run the command once when it starts up. So, do make sure that the |
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command actually runs - maybe you are making one of the many classic |
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cron errors and your script is faulty, not cron. Maybe you have an |
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older version of cron that doesn't support @reboot and are reading a |
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newer man page. |
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If this all checks out OK and it still doesn't work, then cron is not |
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behaving the way it's own documentation says it should, this is a bug |
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and should be reported to the cron developers |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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