[H-GEN] wtmp

Daniel Quinlan daniel at netwise.net.au
Thu Jan 6 23:04:06 EST 2000


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On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 01:29:35PM +1000, W. Sierke wrote:
> > most distributions run usefull cron jobs at about 2am.....and not
> > just wtmp truncating.
> 
> So, my question is... How is that issue addressed in the "Linux on the home
> user's desktop" camp? What housekeeping tasks are normally scheduled for
> overnight execution when most home users' computers won't be powered on? Are
> there any essential tasks that the home user should take steps to ensure
> they get run periodically? Reschedule? Execute manually?
> 
> How do the commercial distribution producers handle it (and I'm guessing
> none probably have)?


don't know about commercial distrib's but debian uses anacron to handle
this situation. when I boot up my laptop it will quite often kick into
some cron job shortly after booting.  seems to work quite well.

cya,
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