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Crontab without Continuous Operation

Submitted by h2b on 20. October 2010 - 18:15
System: 
OpenSUSE
Version: 
11.3
Symptom: 

Events triggered by crontab will not happen, if the PC is off-state at the time specified.

Unix systems including Linux have a mechanism that automatically can execute programs at a specified time – for instance daily at a certain time of day or weekly or monthly at a given day and here again at a certain time of day. All of this is triggered by a file named crontab which usually resides in the directory /etc (i. e., /etc/crontab) and contains the particular indications.

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