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On 03/12/2013 22:14, dgmm wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 December 2013 09:48:04 krad wrote:
>> or you could use the @reboot option, that would mean it always runs at
>> crons start, which may not be what you want,
> 
> Yes, that was my first thought but the overheads at boot time might be 
> inconvenient although I'll try it to find out.
> 

Or write a rc script to run it at shutdown?