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[Ryan Prior]

Perhaps "phone-cron" needs to be written, to take anacron to the level of
task flexibility required for modern cell phones. Cron and anacron are
crusty old beasts - we need something fresh and sharp.

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Bastian Muck <bastian.muck at gmx.de> wrote:

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> Anachron can unfortunately run tasks once a day, which you can read at the
> Drawback. I guess that tasks, with a "remember-funktions" canot really be
> realized with anachron.
> I don't know if there is a timer, which can send an wakeup-interupt, but
> when it exists the next upcoming task could be searched an the time could be
> passed to the timer. Does anybody knows of such timer?
> If not i think it should be integrated in gta03.
>
> Greetings Bastian
>
> Torfinn Ingolfsen schrieb:
> | Hi,
> |
> | On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Mike Baroukh <mike at baroukh.com> wrote:
> |>  About this, I was wondering if there was possibility to have cron like
> |>  tasks even if the phone is suspended ?
> |
> | You could always run something like anacron{1] on the phone. As long
> | as yoy don't keep you phone suspended for a day or more that would
> | work. :-)
> |
> | References:
> | 1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacron
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