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On 4/10/2015 1:19 AM, Frank Fesevur wrote:
> 2015-04-10 9:49 GMT+02:00 Kizito Porta BalanyĆ :
>> I'm wondering how cron knows when a machine is rebooted.
>> What does cron check? Which parameter / file?
>> Do you know it?
>
> $ man 5 crontab
>
> See @reboot
>
> Never used it but I assume it will run after cron service is started.
>
> Regards,
> Frank

I haven't used it either, but I saw it there. Makes you wonder what 
would happen if you simply restarted the service or stopped it and then 
started it again.
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Andrew DeFaria
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