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Date:      Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:43:49 +0200
From:      "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>
To:        Tim Allshorn <ta_iy@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cron pickle
Message-ID:  <20010917124349.C93774@mail.webmonster.de>
In-Reply-To: <F243F4r4rPKlNonsYKU00010632@hotmail.com>; from ta_iy@hotmail.com on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 10:40:15AM %2B1000
References:  <F243F4r4rPKlNonsYKU00010632@hotmail.com>

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Tim Allshorn(ta_iy@hotmail.com)@2001.09.17 10:40:15 +0000:
> Hello.
>     I need to be able to run a particular program at the last minute of e=
ach=20
> month and yes I know it would be much easier to run it at the first minut=
e=20
> of each month, but my hands are tied and my brain is too puny to work it=
=20
> out.

cron is not a good idea, because it might start the process delayed.
naturally, the same with at.
you might check out runwhen or other alternative schedulers that
actually give you the instrumentation you need.
[http://multivac.cwru.edu/runwhen/] might be a candidate

/k

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