On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 04:26, Kin Chung wrote: > > > > >Laurent de Segur wrote: > > >I am trying to minimize the power consumption of my laptop... > > > [on reducing hd usage] > > > >The first one is updatedb which I moved from daily to weekly. > > If you rarely add packages to your machine, you might consider > moving it from weekly to monthly or even take it off cron and > do it manually at your convenience.
Or install anacron as well as the powerpc version of on_ac_power in /usr/bin: http://hadess.net/files/ppc/on_ac_power That should solve your problem with cron jobs going off while you're on battery. Cheers -- /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net
