[LBo] cronjobs not working

[Stefan Waidele]

Billy Pollifrone schrieb:
> [...]
> Unless it's a laptop, I'd just leave it running. If you get to using
> cron jobs regularly, it would probably be wise to redirect root's mail
> to a real email account, so the results would be emailed to you.
> Redirecting stderr is helpful too.

And if you use cronjobs on machines that are not "always-on" for 
whatever reason (saving power/noise/...), you might want to look into 
"anacron".

Anacron will "catch up" with any tasks it has missed while the computer 
was off.

Stefan


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