Thanks for the continuing replies and suggestions. Again I will put replies in one mail, since noone has given me a good reason not to, yet. Please comment on this if it is a problem.
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 12:00 AM, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 01:38:19PM +0200, David wrote: > >> This isn't a solution for me. I want fsck to run regularly, > > Why? > Rephrased: I want fsck to run as often as the system wants to. I assume it has good reasons to be scheduled as often as it is by default. Exception: When I don't have time to wait for it. ===== On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 3:00 AM, Nick Lidakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know if that is the full extent of your computer usage (i.e., > getting on the internet to check mail quickly) when being interrupted by > fsck. If that is all you need, and if you might be in the market for a new > mother board in the near future, then you might want to consider getting > one of the new ASUS boards with a Splashtop BIOS. There's more info on the > company's website: http://www.splashtop.com/ Mostly web browsing, but I do sometimes ssh over to another box of mine (router) to check it's download (over dialup) status. Also I like to play some music from my harddrive through Audacious while getting ready for work. I doubt that the trimmed-down Firefox has all the add-ins I like to use. But it's something worth looking into. Thanks for the suggestion. ===== On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 3:31 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why not just run fsck manually (i.e. shutdown -RF now) whenever you > want. If you do it frequently enough, you'll never hit the automatic > checking counter: you'll only get caught if you forget. Set up cron to > send you an email reminder every week or something. > This is a decent work-around. However, ideally I should be able to configure the scheduled fscks to run at a more conveniant time, and automatically, rather than having to work my own schedule around the needs of the PC. Another problem is that I don't know how to setup mail relaying on my workstation (so that mail from local accounts get queued, and then forwarded to my gmail account when I dial up to the internet). I'm not sure if it's worth the trouble to research and set that up :-) Finally, Exim MTA was setup by default on my PC, but I disabled it's init.d script. Reason: My PC is not connected to the internet a lot of the time, so I get a "MTA starting..." message that stalls the startup for a long time. I really hate long delays during startup :-) (see also: Apple Talk service installed by default. wth?) David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
