anacron

[Martin Pitt]

Hi!

Scott James Remnant [2004-11-11 16:17 +0000]:
> On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 01:16 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 08:42:51PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > > I'd like to propose anacron for hoary main as part of the "Even More
> > > Totally Rad Laptop Support" umbrella.
> > 
> > Isn't that the "Make My Laptop Totally Slow Right After Boot When I'm
> > Trying To Use It" umbrella?
> > 
> The other alternative is that none of these jobs ever get run.

Which is more than just a little annoying:

$ locate foo
warning: locate: could not open database: /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db: No such file or directory

This machine is installed for over a month now. Sometimes I even stay
up until 3 am, but still it seems that cron.daily was not ever
executed on my machine. 6:25 is just not a very good time for hacking
for me, and I doubt that it is an overly productive time for many
other folks, too :-/

Conclusion: we need anacron :-)

Martin
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