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submitted 10 months ago by Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Hi folks, Does anyone know how to instruct cron to carry out a command when a connection to the internet is first made after boot? I have a few jobs that only need to be done once per day and require an internet connection e.g downloading the weather forecast and my rss feeds. I'm not always connected to the internet on boot and do not have the computer switched on at the same times every day. Many thanks for any suggestions.

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[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 14 points 10 months ago

Cron is basically limited to doing something on a time interval. What you could do is make it so your Cron job checks for internet access and then does the thing if it finds it.

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