From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Jun 25 18:13:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from uniqsite.uniqsite.com (209-249-66-9.snj0.flashcom.net [209.249.66.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F01F014DF5 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 18:13:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gfish@uniqsite.com) Received: from localhost (gfish@localhost) by uniqsite.uniqsite.com (8.9.2/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA00128; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 18:13:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gfish@uniqsite.com) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 18:13:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Golden Fischer To: Jose Marques Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cron In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Your question should go to the questions list. Ah but it's still there and it's enhanced. Check this: man periodic and for your old entries you want to add a 'periodic' in front. Like mine says: 0 2 * * * root periodic daily 2>&1 Fischer On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Jose Marques wrote: > I have recently installed FreeBSD-3.2 (upgraded to stable as of last > weekend) on my laptop and have noticed a change in behaviour as compared > to FreeBSD-2.2.8 that I was running before. Under 2.2 cron would run jobs > on resume that should have run while the laptop was asleep. This was > quite useful as it meant that daily and weekly tasks got run despite the > fact that my laptop would usually be sleeping at the times these were > normally scheduled. FreeBSD 3.2 no longer does this. Is this a bug or > feature? Are there any work arounds or patches available to get the old > behaviour? I also notice that uptime no longer records time when the > laptop was sleeping, is this related? > > -- > Jose Marques To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message