Hello Mark,

Tuesday 11 November 2003 22:33, mark lewis wrote to Gord Hannah:

ml> i've got cron utils and such... the problem is when the time for the
ml> event passes while the machine is jambed or even turned off... i have
ml> events that need to run as soon as the machine returns to operational
ml> condition... crons won't do that... note that i'm speaking of things
ml> that may not run but once a month or less... if the event time passes,
ml> i don't want to have to wait for another month before it runs... i
ml> need it to run now...

I've a REXX program that checks and/or writes the current system date to an
EA of a file of your choice and returns a return code depending on whether
it's already run today/this month etc.


  Greetings   -=Eddy=-

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