>You can also use an ``@reboot'' crontab entry.  (I had the vague memory
>that I used this in the past with the effect that it auto-restarts, but I
>can't see any indication of that, now, in the man-page.  All that I can
>see, now, is that it runs it on every boot.)

@reboot in the cron context refers to cron itself being "booted".
started, that is.  vixie cron also supports:

	@yearly
	@annually
	@monthly
	@weekly
	@daily
	@midnight
	@hourly

some other cron versions support @teatime.

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