Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 14:47:22 -0700 From: Kenneth Ingham <ingham@i-pi.com> To: Andrew McNaughton <andrew@squiz.co.nz> Cc: FreeBSD Mobile <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Alternatives to cron (was Re: PCMCIA Card Config) Message-ID: <19980211144722.40814@i-pi.com> In-Reply-To: <v02120d07b107a403f67f@[203.96.56.128]>; from Andrew McNaughton on Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 09:30:37AM %2B1300 References: <v02120d07b107a403f67f@[203.96.56.128]>
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On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 09:30:37AM +1300, Andrew McNaughton wrote: > I have another process in mind > which _must_ go ahead every night, but needn't be at an exact time. cron > doesn't handle this well if the server goes down briefly at the wrong > moment, or in rare cases has too high a load and misses a cron job. What about a self-rescheduling at job? at jobs which should have run while the system was down will run when it comes back up. Kenneth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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