On 24 Dec 2001, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> For some time, I've gotten mad at a certain behavior of cron: when I
> sleep my laptop overnight and wake it up, it starts running all the
[snip] 
> Any ideas on an appropriate character, or alternate syntaxes, or ideas
> on prior art, or just plain ideas?

How about modifying the system cron scripts to prevent find(1) from taking
a scenic tour of the filesystems if a job was missed?  I did this a few
years ago, but I now forget why.


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David Griffith
dgriffi@cs.csubak.edu