Hi Chris
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Chris G cl@isbd.net wrote:
I have a backup job that (should) be run daily. There is a script called 'backup' that is in /etc/cron.daily.
If the computer is shutdown regularly then anacron does its job and runs backup a few minutes after the computer is powered up again. If, on the other hand, the computer is on all the time then cron runs the job at 07:30.
However, and this is the problem, if the computer is Suspend[ed] and isn't running at 07:30 then the jobs in /etc/cron.daily never get run. Is there any way around this?
Not sure if this a good guess, but since /etc/cron.d/anacron will not be run since the computer was in a "on" state as such at 7:30.
How about putting in two anacron runs in the cron.d one in the morning and the other at night time ? because if any of the timestamps for the jobs that have been run will be checked.
As I say just a guess. Ian
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