From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 18 09:26:42 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5DCE10656A9 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:26:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stark@mapper.nl) Received: from smtp-out2.tiscali.nl (smtp-out2.tiscali.nl [195.241.79.177]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 335738FC15 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:26:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.170.17.27] (helo=mapper.nl) by smtp-out2.tiscali.nl with esmtp (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1Oleuv-0006OJ-7u; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:26:41 +0200 Received: from yoshi ([10.58.235.3] helo=[0.0.0.0]) by mapper.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.72 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Oleus-000MLl-EV; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:26:38 +0200 Message-ID: <4C6BA749.3040904@mapper.nl> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:26:33 +0200 From: Mark Stapper User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam Vande More References: <4C6B847A.5090408@mapper.nl> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig749B3F7DF9CF9AC35A506C90" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: how to run task periodically X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:26:42 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig749B3F7DF9CF9AC35A506C90 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 18-8-2010 9:22, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Mark Stapper > wrote: > > So I need a utility that enable me to say: "if a week has passed si= nce > the last run, run this command". > Is there such a utlility? > > =20 > /usr/ports/sysutils/anacron > > > --=20 > Adam Vande More That was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you! Cheers, Mark --------------enig749B3F7DF9CF9AC35A506C90 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxrp04ACgkQN9xNqOOVnWC7pQCfa8B0KYjjruTMlSAqQVRfanI+ VCgAoJEJtwL8vr8I1KaHb/sFFTX1ofjn =5oi4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig749B3F7DF9CF9AC35A506C90--