[H-GEN] wtmp
Byron Ellacott
bje at apnic.net
Tue Jan 4 23:49:52 EST 2000
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On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, David Male wrote:
> The distro is Caldera 2.3 , all nice and graphical and has Star Office
> which has cut my use of NT and 98 to .1%. I start it first thing in
> the morning and turn it off every night. A response on the Caldera
> list suggests that a) I set up logrotate as a cron job to fix it or b)
> just leave the machine on over night as cron should already be set to
> do this early morning?
such cron jobs usually happen around 7am. perhaps you could take a look
at using anacron instead of cron -- it apparently runs jobs that were
sheduled while the machine was off when the machine comes back on, or some
such. or reschedule these daily maintennance tasks to your lunch break,
or something.
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bje
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