Re: modem works!, battery drains fast?
Ethan Benson wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:27:18AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> >
> > lpd doesn't check the spool dir by itself. gdm and XFree86 are a must I
> > assume :-) Any cron jobs that run more often than every few minutes?
>
> does cron not check /etc/cron.d often? i know you can drop files in
> there and cron will use them without restarting it so it must check
> this somehow...
According to the manpage it does so every minute, and I haven't found a way
around this so it could be the showstopper.
> > Seems like syslogd doesn't provide such an option... Log less, or log to a
> > remote host.
>
> it sort of does, from the man page:
>
> You may prefix each entry with the minus ``-'' sign to
> omit syncing the file after every logging. Note that you
> might lose information if the system crashes right behind
> a write attempt. Nevertheless this might give you back
> some performance, especially if you run programs that use
> logging in a very verbose manner.
>
> referring to the file path your logging to. some entries in the
> default syslog.conf are already set this way. turning off the -- MARK --
> thing would probably help to.
Thanks for the suggestions!
Michel
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast
Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and The DRI Project
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