cron

[Leslie Mikesell]

In article <5312 at lynx.UUCP> m5 at lynx.UUCP (Mike McNally) writes:
>How does cron behave when the time is changed by a human or by a
>demon?  Does it do something clever (?)

SysV cron is seriously unclever about this.  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.

Les Mikesell