From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 9 8:49:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [212.66.1.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E11937B403 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 08:49:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA26402; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 17:49:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 17:49:11 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200109091549.RAA26402@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anacron ? In-Reply-To: <20010909103456.A459@juli.local> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-stable User-Agent: tin/1.5.4-20000523 ("1959") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.1-RELEASE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Julio Merino wrote: > I would like to use cron jobs, but as my system is not up all the day, > it is hard to calculate the proper times and to remember to power up > the computer at that hours... (this is like to not having cron...). Have you tried fcron? /usr/ports/sysutils/fcron Sounds like it does what you need. > Any other solution to run jobs? Or will the anacron daemon run fine > on FreeBSD? I don't know anacron, but since it is a userland thingy, it should compile and run fine on FreeBSD, modulo any nasty Linuxisms. On the other hand, fcron is in the ports collection, so it is virtually guaranteed that it compiles and runs out of the box. I'd give it a shot. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message