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Re:We're migrating many of our servers from Linux to FreeBSD by michaelmrose on Monday January 24, 2022 @02:02PM (#30062274)
Fcron can also do random timings, jitter, running if the time passed occured while system was off, timing based on runtime not elapsed time, delay until system is less loaded, avoid overlapping instances of the same job.

http://fcron.free.fr/doc/en/fcrontab.5.html

1.0 released 21 years ago.

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Re:We're migrating many of our servers from Linux to FreeBSD by MonaroVXR on Monday January 24, 2022 @08:10PM (#30066568)
What about anacron?
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Re:We're migrating many of our servers from Linux to FreeBSD by michaelmrose on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @02:23PM (#30076687)
Good point. I'm not familiar with it.
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