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Phil!Gregory said: > Try McAfee's virus scanning suite with its automatic update ability. It > seems (or seemed, the last time I had to deal with it, which was a few > years ago) to work like at(1) rather than cron(8). You tell it when you > want it to run (every weekday at, say, 7 pm, randomized within an hour > (actually a nice feature to keep the update server from getting hammered)) > and it then tells you when it will run next. If it misses that > appointment (computer off, programs crash, whatever), it will never run > again, because it will continue waiting for that date to roll around. > "I'm going to run on April 27th, 2005. What? It's now May 2nd, 2005? > Too bad. I'm going to wait for April 27th, 2005 to come around again." Actually, that's also one of the things it does from time to time. It fails once in some manner, it may or may not turn the entire autoupdate thing off, and it may or may not schedule another check. Hateful, hateful thing. -- -janThere's stuff above here
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