On Tue, Jul 08, 1997 at 03:55:20PM -0400, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > There is no happy medium. IMO, 7 is too early. I was around 4 am, but > the users who lonly turned their computers on during the day never got > their logs rotated and wondered why their /var/log got so large. > Changing the crontab is easy as you have said, so making sure it is run > seems more important to me.
Use anacron on non-24 hour systems; it schedules things for every day, every few hours, etc. On my system I moved the cron.daily to run from anacron instead of cron, so it gets run about 20 minutes after I start up my system, because I don't use Linux on it every day. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering. 3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [***** ] 50% The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. --Bohr -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
