On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Michael E. Touloumtzis wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 10:10:33PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have cron installed, and I'm sure it should be running things that I'm not > > currently running - like the locate database update. My problem is, I'm on > > a > > laptop, and I shut it down when I'm done with it. So, is there a way to get > > the cron stuff to run manually? Or possibly at bootuptime? > > I use anacron on my home machine, because it is powered up only a few > hours (or even minutes) a day and would miss regularly scheduled cron [snip] > > But that may NOT what you want for a laptop. The last thing you want if > you're running off a battery is for a bunch of (ana)cron jobs to start > and suck up all the battery juice by exercising the disk drives!
My solution to the "battery drain" problem would be to install anacron but remove the anacron symlink from /etc/rc2.d/. Then, if you have ac power and don't mind anacron running, type "linux 3" at the LILO prompt which will take you to runlevel 3 and do the anacron stuff. You could change the default runlevel in /etc/inittab, and you can change the timeout and other things for the lilo prompt in /etc/lilo.conf. HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |
