anacron

[Scott James Remnant]

On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 09:25 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> 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.
> 
It already does, 5 minutes after boot for cron.daily, 10 for cron.weekly
and 15 for cron.monthly -- see /etc/anacrontab.

> Jobs could be triggered when the system is plugged into AC.
> 
Yeah, we should certainly make sure our acpi-support stops anacrontab
when on battery power and starts it when on AC power.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
scott at canonical.com
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