Re: cron and laptop
On 28-Feb-2001 David Wright wrote:
> Quoting christophe barbe (christophe.barbe@inup.com):
>> I use potato on a laptop and my laptop is on only when i'm using it.
>> When I start, cron launches various task (too many at the same time) and
>> take a big part of the CPU.
>>
>> It's crazy : you turn your computer 2 minutes on (you do near nothing), cron
>> works. After a night you turn on your laptop another time (no big changes
>> has occured during the last session) and cron restart everything.
>
> Sounds more like anacron, unless you turn on your laptop at exactly the
> same time each day (about 07:30).
>
recent versions of anacron in unstable will now only run cron jobs when you are
connected to wall power. This should hopefully help as well.
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