Re: how to set up

Sorry for the late responce...

GRAB can run automatically via cron and anacron. The easiest way to get GRAB
to run automatically is to run 'grab --mkcron'. This will tell GRAB to write a
cron script for you and depending on how often you want GRAB to run, it will
write it in different locations (i.e. /etc/cron.[daily|weekly|monthly]/).

GRAB used to have a daemon option that will fork GRAB, and run it in the
background and come to life at the defined time, but I don't think that anyone
ever used it. Why would you when cron is already running and managing
scheduled processes across the OS?

Because your system is not always running cron may miss the scheduled time,
which is why there is also anacron. Anacron is similar to cron, but looks to
see if the process has run within the time stated, and if not, runs it.
Anacron also looks in the /etc/cron.* directories as does cron. Do a 'man 
anacron' for more info.

Greg

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 01:20:24PM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> hello,
> this is a very basic question, but hopefully you can help:
> how do i set up grab to run automatically? in cron? my computer is on at
> ramdon times and not everyday, so if i tell it to update the system on
> tuesdays at 9pm, the system may not beupdated for quite a while. then choosing
> to update everytime i boot up may be uncessasary. i'm sure the answer is
> very basic! please help
> m
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