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On 09/19/2014 03:09 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> No wait, that won't work. What you want to accomplish cannot be done |
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> with a single crontab job. |
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> Use periodic/monthly like the other poster said or use anacron so the |
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> job will run when the machine is next powered on. |
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Actually, Gentoo's sys-process/cronbase is supposed to make sure that |
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this happens. But the way it works is poorly (i.e. not) specified. This |
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is one of my favorite old "seriously?" bugs: |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69777 |
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