On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:30:32AM +0100, Joakim Aronius wrote: > * Steve Shockley (steve.shock...@shockley.net) wrote: > > On 1/24/2010 2:48 PM, Ted Unangst wrote: > > >Cron runs the weekly update script every Saturday at 3:30am. If you > > >use a laptop or other desktop, your computer probably isn't on then. > > >So the locate and whatis databases never get updated unless you run it > > >by hand. > > > > Perhaps run a script via cron occasionally, maybe every six hours > > where six hours corresponds to 3:30. If /var/log/weekly.out is more > > than, or exactly, a week old, run weekly. if /var/log/weekly.out is > > less than a week old, only run /var/log/weekly if it's 3:30am on > > Saturday. > > +1. Cron jobs could be run more frequently IMHO, i.e. every 2-3 hrs, as cron > is cheap and to make this work on infrequently used machines. > > /jkm
how about if cron keeps track of the time it was last able to successfully run a job. then when cron starts, send an email for all jobs missed since that time? or maybe just send an email to remind that daily/weekly/ monthly was missed? -- jake...@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
