anacron

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 06:37:39PM +0100, Christian Bjälevik wrote:

> Why not make anacron wait til the systems load is under a certain 
> percentage? That percentage level could be changed in for exempel 
> /etc/default/anacron? But then again. Both percentage level and a 
> certain amount of uptime would be even better (to let the user log in to 
> the lappy etc).

The problem is that interactive users don't generate much load on the
system, and yet it's very inconvenient to have cron.daily start up when you
are trying to do real work (especially on laptops, which have slow disks as
a rule).

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 - mdz