proposal: best practices for cron jobs in RPM packages

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Friday, June 11, 2004 1:49 AM +0200 Miloslav Trmac <mitr at volny.cz> 
wrote:

> /etc/cron.d can not be integrated with anacron, which is quite a problem
> for most "ordinary users" who switch their computers off in the evening.

So you'd need scripts in both cron.d and cron.daily, with the one in 
cron.daily checking some local state to see if the cron.d script ran in the 
last 24 hours. Unfortunately that reproduces functionality that anacron is 
supposed to implement.