Re: Suspending laptop screws up servers
On 20-Apr-2002 Jesper Holmberg wrote:
> I usually run my old Dell laptop all-day, and then suspend it during
> nights. Unfortunately, the last couple of months, this gives me some
> side-effects:
>
> 1. The general "volume" of the sound goes down to zero, shutting off
> sound, after I wake the computer up, although this is not the way it's
> specified in my aumixrc.
the sound modules may be getting unloaded and reloaded, don't know if that will
make a difference.
> 2. All the cron-stuff (like the scripts in cron.daily and cron.weekly)
> never get run after the first time. It seems like the system never
> conclude it's been a day (or a week, etc) since last time it last run.
> So the scripts run the first time I start up the computer, but never
> after it's been suspended.
>
if you are using cron to schedule jobs it runs cron.daily and weekly on
specific days at specific times so if the machine is asleep at that moment they
are not run. You should likely be using anacron.
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