I recently installed Libtrash (it creates a trash can for Linux!). For some reason, the deb package (version 0.8) in Woody is way out of date (current version is 2.0) and the deb package only seems to include the documentation rather than the usable program. So I downloaded the source tarball from here:
http://www.m-arriaga.net/software/libtrash/libtrash-latest.tgz It installed fine. I'm pleased to have a trash can, but of course it keeps growing in size, wasting hard disk space. Fortunately, Libtrash comes with a Perl script called cleanTrash which deletes files from the trash can when the junk reaches a specified size. Although cleanTrash could be run manually, it's more convenient to run it as a cron job. And since my computer isn't on 24 hours a day, I figured anacron was better. So, actually, I have two questions: 1) Is the only thing I need to do to get cleanTrash to run (as a cron job) is to stick it in /etc/cron.daily? 2) I did "apt-get install anacron" - it installed fine, but do I need to do anything else to configure anacron? Or is it just pre-configured to take over from cron? I suspect it is, considering the contents of my /etc/crontab file: # m h dom mon dow user command 25 6 * * * root test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily 47 6 * * 7 root test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly 52 6 1 * * root test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly # regards, Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
