Re: puzzling cron job!!

["Statux" <statux bigfoot com>]

a reboot would cause something like this to occur..

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-----Original Message-----
From: Vineeta <vineeta vidya aptech ac in>
To: redhat-list redhat com <redhat-list redhat com>
Date: Saturday, October 31, 1998 4:45 AM
Subject: puzzling cron job!!


>I have the foll. entry in my crontab file for root:
>0 19 9 10 5 /etc/xxx          
>1 19 9 10 5 /usr/bin/yyy   
>
>This was the change i had made in the crontab file on 9th oct,1998.
>After that i did not reboot my linux box.
>Now,today when i came & checked my mail,i saw that the cron job was 
>executed yesterday at 7pm.
>Between 9th oct & today i rebooted my m/c on 28th oct,1998.
>I am puzzled as to how cron works.
>Acc. to the entry in crontab file the job was supposed to be executed
>on 9/10/98 at 19:00 & 19:01.
>then,why did it execute yesterday???
>It did not execute on 9th oct.
>
>Any idea what's going on??
>
>Regards,
>Vineeta
>
>
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