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Subject: Re: cron(8) mis-feature with @reboot long after system startup
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On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Christian Kastner <debian@kvr.at> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2011-11-25 08:02, Jason Hellenthal wrote:
>> So with that said... is there a way we could actually make this run @reboot only ?
>
> Debian's cron[0] and Fedora's cronie[1] have solved this by touching a
> file on first startup and running @reboot only when this file does not
> yet exist.
>

I like this idea, however it has a major caveat: Assuming the shutdown
scripts remove said file (and the boot scripts create said file), what
happens in the event that the disk was umount'ed uncleanly? For
example, a power failure (I know, that's what UPSs are for, but lets
ignore that for a second). If the system is configured to
automatically boot after a power failure, the @reboot cron script wont
run (since the said file still exists...).