On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:22:43 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip]
> It does save electricity and if you are concerned about system > maintenannce then all you need to do is ensure that anacron is > installed and running. anacron will run the maintenance task which > have been missed after bootup. Unless you have a very old machine you > will probably not even notice. I've also been wondering about system maintenance on my laptop. To the extent that I grok the (default) anacron / cron interplay, anacron will run daily all the scripts in /etc/cron.daily, weekly all the scripts in /etc/cron.weekly and monthly all the scripts in /etc/cron.monthly. It won't, AFAICT, run stuff from ordinary crontabs, such as /etc/crontab or the files in /etc/cron.d. I use rsnapshot, which supplies a cron file in /etc/cron.d, which anacron apparently won't run. I suppose one must make sure that all one's cron stuff is in the directories that anacron runs, or perhaps rewrite /etc/anacrontab. Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
