anacron

[Scott James Remnant]

I'd like to propose anacron for hoary main as part of the "Even More
Totally Rad Laptop Support" umbrella.

For those who don't know what it is, it's a cron daemon that only runs
the files placed in /etc/cron.daily, cron.weekly and cron.monthly.
Ordinarily these are run by cron by entries in its /etc/crontab, but
when anacron is installed these do nothing.

What anacron does over cron is remember when these jobs have been
missed, and "catches up" when the machine is able to do them.

This works a lot better for systems that spent a lot of time powered
off, or hibernating (such as in-bedroom desktops or laptops) and when
combined with some ACPI support anacron is disabled while on battery
power so you don't waste precious battery life by running updatedb.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
scott at canonical.com
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