This morning I worked on my home debian system at a very early time (for me, that is), from 6:30 a.m on. All of a sudden my hard disk begins to crackle, opening a new window takes longer than normal (I have a lowly 486DX100), and after starting top I see that `nobody' is running `find' (it's amazing, isn't it ? :). I soon realized that this was cron running the cron.daily scripts. I never thought about this before, but it may very well have been the first time these scripts were run, my computer at home is usually switched off at this time. Now comes my question:
Could this be harmful? I think a lot of people using linux at home don't leave their computer switched on continuously. Has anyone ever thought of a system that would spot missed cron events and run them at a later time? Would this be useful at all? Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
