Cron Monthly abnormality in FC12

Tom Horsley tom.horsley at att.net
Tue Dec 8 13:50:36 UTC 2009


On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:34:52 +0100
Joerg Bergmann wrote:

> If you tell anacron to run the program monthly, 
> it will run the program at an appropriate time the PC is switched on.

Almost correct, but what it actually does is unerringly detect
the most inappropriate possible time to run the job and start it
then (it seems to have Murphy's Law built into it :-).




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