cron.{daily, weekly, ...} and hibernate

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> Ville-Pekka Vainio wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been wondering about the cron.{daily, monthly, weekly, hourly}
>> scripts and hibernate. It seems to me that when I use hibernate, these
>> jobs are almost never run, unless of course I need to do a complete
>> reboot due to a kernel update or such.
>>
>> Cron almost never gets to run these jobs because the computer is usually
>> hibernating when cron is configured to run. It seems like anacron
>> doesn't run the jobs either when the computer is actually running. To
>> fix this I've written a simple bash script for hibernating which first
>> runs hibernate and then restarts crond and anacron when waking up.
>>
>> Am I wrong here, is there something wrong with my configuration or is it
>> really the situation that the cron jobs are not run after waking up from
>> hibernation?
> 
> You should look into running anacron (instead of the standard crond), as 
                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

My error, this should read "in addition to the standard crond"!

> it is designed to run jobs that were scheduled while the computer was 
> down when that computer comes back up.

anacron by default makes sure that cron.daily, cron.weekly, and 
cron.monthly get run if they were scheduled during a time when the 
computer was down....



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