Re: missed cron jobs

1997-05-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, May 15, 1997 at 04:38:11PM +0200, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > 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 c

Re: missed cron jobs

1997-05-16 Thread A. M. Varon
On Thu, 15 May 1997, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > 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 starti

Re: missed cron jobs

1997-05-15 Thread Andy Mortimer
On May 15, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote > 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

Re: missed cron jobs

1997-05-15 Thread Eloy A. Paris
John Maheu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : My computer is at home and I have noticed the noisy disk activity to. It : seems to be associated with syslogd being restarted. : May 15 06:43:35 macrae syslogd 1.3-0#13: restart. : : How can I schedule this job for a more appropriate time? Sure. Just edit

Re: missed cron jobs

1997-05-15 Thread John Maheu
On Thu, 15 May 1997, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > 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 starti

Re: missed cron jobs

1997-05-15 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On May 15, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote [problems when cron jobs are never executed on systems that aren't switched on 24hrs/day ?] > Could this be harmful? AFAIK: not really. It does mean that logs keep on growing, but that's easily cured. > I think a lot of people using linux at home don't leave th

missed cron jobs

1997-05-15 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
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 amazi