Re: syslogs not rotated - cron.daily never run because computer never up at 6:25am?

Celejar schrieb:
> On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:22:14 +0300
> Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
>

>> On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 04:56:29PM +0200, Malte Forkel wrote:

>>> Could it be that cron ignores its daily tasks if the machine is down at the 
>>> time specified for cron.daily in /etc/crontab? I.e., if the machine is 
>>> never up at 6:25am, the daily cron jobs are never executed? If that's the 
>>> case, how do I schedule jobs that are truly executed every day, even if the 
>>> machine only runs at irregular times?
>> Just install anacron.

Thanks to all of you for your suggestions. I installed anacron. There already is a hook for it in /etc/crontab, so it seems to work right out of the box as a cron supplement without any configuration required.

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