Re: nobody is running find at too high a priority
On Tue, Jul 08, 1997 at 03:55:20PM -0400, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> There is no happy medium. IMO, 7 is too early. I was around 4 am, but
> the users who lonly turned their computers on during the day never got
> their logs rotated and wondered why their /var/log got so large.
> Changing the crontab is easy as you have said, so making sure it is run
> seems more important to me.
Use anacron on non-24 hour systems; it schedules things for
every day, every few hours, etc. On my system I moved the cron.daily
to run from anacron instead of cron, so it gets run about 20 minutes
after I start up my system, because I don't use Linux on it every day.
Hamish
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