Re: Should packages depend on cron?
Hi,
>>"Brandon" == Brandon Mitchell <bhmit1@mail.wm.edu> writes:
Brandon> I think I see an idea forming. Put anacron in recommended or
Brandon> more appropriate area. Set it to run the
Brandon> daily,weekly,monthly scripts at 3 or 4 am when no one should
Brandon> be on a server that's always on. Put it in the boot up
Brandon> scripts for personal machines that aren't always on. Finally
Brandon> do something to fool anacron into getting back into a weekly,
Brandon> monthly routine (i.e. a server that has been shutdown for a
Brandon> weekend will run the weekly scripts on sunday and not monday,
Brandon> when the 7 days would normally be up).
I think that should be required before pulling anacron further
towards being a default/standard option (I and my news feed would not
like it if my saturday midnight job happens on a weekday). I don't
know if this is feasible.
Also, I tend to stagger jobs on my machine using cron (I have
a thin pipe to my machine), and would not want everything to go
chugging off at bootup (is this not a problem even for laptop users?)
Maybe we should advertise it better for laptop users? Maybe
using one of the new keywords for Deity? This way laptop users can
have anacron as standard, and let it be optional for the rest of the
world.
manoj
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