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

[Kevin J. Cummings]

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

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