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Subject: Re: Delayed cronjobs
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Hi Jerry,

Jerry McAllister wrote:
> You can write the sccript that your cronjob starts so that it keeps
> track of when it was last run and then either have cron run it often 
> or add it to /usr/local/etc/rc.d to be run at startup. 
That would be a good option as well; I didn't think of that.

thanks for sharing,
Jos