A system that goes to sleep (suspend) cannot run regularly scheduled cronjobs. Fortunately anacron is already installed, and runs the scripts in /etc/cron.daily
, /etc/cron.weekly
, and /etc/cron.monthly
in the hour after the system wakes up.
The problem is that these scripts run as root
rather than a regular user. You can use sudo
to run parts of the script as another user.
#!/bin/bash set -eo pipefail sudo -u ian -i <<SUDO <executed as non-privileged user> SUDO
Remember to chmod
this shell script.
chmod u+x /etc/cron.daily/script