Re: manually running cron
On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Michael E. Touloumtzis wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 10:10:33PM -0500, MallarJ@aol.com wrote:
> > I have cron installed, and I'm sure it should be running things that I'm not
> > currently running - like the locate database update. My problem is, I'm on a
> > laptop, and I shut it down when I'm done with it. So, is there a way to get
> > the cron stuff to run manually? Or possibly at bootuptime?
>
> I use anacron on my home machine, because it is powered up only a few
> hours (or even minutes) a day and would miss regularly scheduled cron
[snip]
>
> But that may NOT what you want for a laptop. The last thing you want if
> you're running off a battery is for a bunch of (ana)cron jobs to start
> and suck up all the battery juice by exercising the disk drives!
My solution to the "battery drain" problem would be to install anacron but
remove the anacron symlink from /etc/rc2.d/. Then, if you have ac power
and don't mind anacron running, type "linux 3" at the LILO prompt which
will take you to runlevel 3 and do the anacron stuff. You could change
the default runlevel in /etc/inittab, and you can change the timeout and
other things for the lilo prompt in /etc/lilo.conf.
HTH,
Brandon
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