cron

[Jim Shankland]

In article <7955 at chinet.chi.il.us> les at chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>SysV cron is seriously unclever about [behaving when the time changes].
>For example when daylight savings time ends it runs the 2AM jobs twice.
>I had some real problems due to some files being removed when they
>shouldn't have.

Heh.  So beware of putting non-idempotent operations into your
crontab ("move the wrecking ball 100 yards west," or "transfer
$10 million to account X").

Jim Shankland
jas at ernie.berkeley.edu

"Blame it on the lies that killed us, blame it on the truth that ran us down"