Re: Shut down or leave on?
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:22:43 -0400
icelinux@icelinux.net wrote:
[snip]
> It does save electricity and if you are concerned about system
> maintenannce then all you need to do is ensure that anacron is
> installed and running. anacron will run the maintenance task which
> have been missed after bootup. Unless you have a very old machine you
> will probably not even notice.
I've also been wondering about system maintenance on my laptop. To the
extent that I grok the (default) anacron / cron interplay, anacron will
run daily all the scripts in /etc/cron.daily, weekly all the scripts
in /etc/cron.weekly and monthly all the scripts in /etc/cron.monthly.
It won't, AFAICT, run stuff from ordinary crontabs, such
as /etc/crontab or the files in /etc/cron.d. I use rsnapshot, which
supplies a cron file in /etc/cron.d, which anacron apparently won't
run. I suppose one must make sure that all one's cron stuff is in the
directories that anacron runs, or perhaps rewrite /etc/anacrontab.
Celejar
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