You have to have a system running for more than 65 minutes for it to run the daily cron jobs. And if this is a test system that you keep rebooting. Well. So if I want /var/log/rpmpkgs to get updated, I have to wait until the next day an keep the system up for a bit more than 65 minutes. Actually a quite reasonable requirement. Add this to my 'book': cron is your friend. Anacron is a better friend on a desktop linux system. And I suspect that nightly suspends will NOT trigger anacron. Though probably some time after coming out of suspension for that day anacron might run again. I will have to check this out on Saturday night (I suspend this system every friday afternoon).
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:> You have to have a system running for more than 65 minutes for it to run > the daily cron jobs. > > And if this is a test system that you keep rebooting. Well. > > So if I want /var/log/rpmpkgs to get updated, I have to wait until the > next day an keep the system up for a bit more than 65 minutes. Actually > a quite reasonable requirement. > > Add this to my 'book': cron is your friend. Anacron is a better friend > on a desktop linux system. > > And I suspect that nightly suspends will NOT trigger anacron. Though > probably some time after coming out of suspension for that day anacron > might run again. I will have to check this out on Saturday night (I > suspend this system every friday afternoon).OK. There is more than one way to do things in Linux. You will find a way to get this to work.
Lanny Marcus wrote:> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote: > >> You have to have a system running for more than 65 minutes for it to run >> the daily cron jobs. >> >> And if this is a test system that you keep rebooting. Well. >> >> So if I want /var/log/rpmpkgs to get updated, I have to wait until the >> next day an keep the system up for a bit more than 65 minutes. Actually >> a quite reasonable requirement. >> >> Add this to my 'book': cron is your friend. Anacron is a better friend >> on a desktop linux system. >> >> And I suspect that nightly suspends will NOT trigger anacron. Though >> probably some time after coming out of suspension for that day anacron >> might run again. I will have to check this out on Saturday night (I >> suspend this system every friday afternoon). >> > > OK. There is more than one way to do things in Linux. You will find a > way to get this to work. >Bulldog is my middle name. :>