anacron

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 04:17:52PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:

> 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.

There are surely other ways...it could wait for a few minutes after boot,
for example.  Jobs could be triggered when the system is plugged into AC.

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 - mdz