On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 11:07:07PM +0200, Guido Piazzi wrote: > Mah... io non ho fatto altro che modificare /etc/crontab in modo che i > vari servizi vengano eseguiti fra le 20 e le 21 (quando ho il computer > acceso a far niente) anziché fra le 6 e le 7 di mattina, quando è sempre > spento perché o sono già fuori o dormo! Una soluzione molto piu' elegante e' usare anacron: > dpkg -p anacron [snip] > Description: a cron-like program that doesn't go by time > Anacron (like `anac(h)ronistic') is a periodic command scheduler. It > executes commands at intervals specified in days. Unlike cron, it > does not assume that the system is running continuously. It can > therefore be used to control the execution of daily, weekly and > monthly jobs (or anything with a period of n days), on systems that > don't run 24 hours a day. When installed and configured properly, > Anacron will make sure that the commands are run at the specified > intervals as closely as machine-uptime permits. > . > This package is pre-configured to execute the daily jobs of the Debian > system. You should install this program if your system isn't powered on > 24 hours a day to make sure the maintenance jobs of other Debian packages > are executed each day. -- - Zack - Stefano Zacchiroli <zacchiro@cs.unibo.it> ICQ# 33538863 Undergraduate Student of Computer Science at University of Bologna, Italy SysAdm of verdicchio.students.cs.unibo.it (130.136.3.134) "Information wants to be Open"
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