cron(8) mis-feature with @reboot long after system startup

Jason Hellenthal jhell at DataIX.net
Sat Nov 26 19:43:57 UTC 2011



On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 04:44:20PM +0100, Stefan Bethke wrote:
> Am 26.11.2011 um 11:54 schrieb Chris Rees:
> 
> > PLEASE let's not go down the route of that.  How long? What if I need to
> >  restart cron shortly after boot? What if boot takes longer?
> 
> Plus "interesting" time changes during boot due to ntpdate/ntpd.
> 

Though it is related to when cron(8) runs jobs, in itself is not the problem. If you have interesting time changes that far off, then you have serious 'other' problems on your hands than what we are discussing. That would be for another thread.
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