Crontab without Continuous Operation
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.