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[Martin Pool]

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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?

Or you could run it from cron e.g. at lunch time when the machine will
be turned on but you're less likely to be using it.

Or, you could install anacron, which tries to catch up on jobs it missed
while the machine was turned off.

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