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Re: One-time cron output?



On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 11:28 +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I wanted to gather some opinions on this matter. I’ve recently applied
> to the mlocate package a patch I received to skip running the daily
> update of the database if the system is running on batteries.
[...]

I think such a policy should be implemented by the cron daemon or by a
common script, rather than by each package with a cron job.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Humour is the best antidote to reality.

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