anacron

[Derek Broughton]

Toby Kelsey wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Toby Kelsey wrote:
> 
>>>It should be called
>>>something different like 'periodic' and use its own directories.
>> 
>> 
>> Absolutely not!!!!  How on earth would I get it to run the cron jobs that
>> have been missed while my laptop was off?  You're missing the point of
>> anacron.
> 
> I think we have to agree to disagree.  

We'll certainly disagree - but you need to realize that you aren't going to
get any support for the changes (not fixes) you'd like to see in anacron.

> My expectation is that cron should 
> run something at a specific time if possible, not just at approximate
> intervals of
> a day/week/month, so anacron should be distinct.  You could run your
> anacron jobs from /etc/periodic.daily and leave cron data files alone.

That can't happen - anacron has to ensure that the _cron_ jobs get run. 
That's its job.

> Another solution would be to improve cron to handle downtime and DST
> sensibly.

Well, that would solve _your_ problem and the one anacron was designed for
at the same time, so wouldn't be a bad thing.
-- 
derek