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Old 03-30-2004, 01:34 AM   #1
zoubidoo
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Question postponing cron jobs


Hallo,

Is there a way to postpone cron jobs?

When I open up my laptop every morning (I usually leave it suspended), cron launches the jobs that should have run overnight (like updatedb). Sometimes the extra load is not a problem, other times I'd like to issue a command to postpone the jobs for an hour or two. Does this exist?

At the moment, I have to kill the job off and the job gets run next day.

Thanks for any advice!

Z.
 
Old 03-30-2004, 03:04 AM   #2
born4linux
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yeah - kill the jobs called in by cron. <g>
probably do a crontab -e and adjust your proggy scheds?
 
  


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