On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 16:12, Bastien Nocera wrote: > 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.
Great, this should go into pmud, like starting anacron on wakeup, Colin's (no)atime remount, ... :) -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
