Re: HDD not spinning down
René Seindal, 2003-Feb-02 09:33 +0100:
> Been there, done that!
>
> Cups regenerates a certificate every five minutes by default. Recent
> versions of cups have a parameter to make it do so less often.
>
> Add this to your /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
>
> RootCertDuration 604800
>
> You also need to tell Postfix to do queue runs less often. I've
> switched my laptop (there the hdd spin-down is more important) to exim,
> where queue runs are done from cron and hence easily controllable. I
> just do one every three hours in the daytime, which is more than enough.
> After all, it is a laptop, not a mail server.
>
> I can't remember how you control the frequency of postfix queue runs.
Right on! This is the sort of response I was hoping to get. I went
ahead and replaced Postfix with Exim and made the config changes you
suggested to /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and the /etc/cron.d and it's working
the way I want it to work.
thanks for your help...jc
PS> please respond to the list and not directly to the poster, and
also, please don't top-post. add your response to the bottom of the
message. thanks. i copied you on my reponse back to the list.
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Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer
Diggin' Debian Admin and User
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