anacron

[Scott James Remnant]

On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 13:43 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 10:36:31PM +0100, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 10:21 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > Have you (or anyone else following this thread) used anacron on a
> > > 24/7 system for a reasonable period of time (some months) without
> > > experiencing any problems?
> > 
> > If 16 months is considered a reasonable time, than yes. And it does some
> > *very* important stuff on my machine so I would have noticed it
> > immediately.
> 
> OK, I'm willing to give this a try in Hoary.
> 
> Does anything need to be done beyond adding anacron to the Desktop seed?
> 
Some changes to acpi-support to ensure that anacron is stopped when the
machine is on battery power, and started on AC power.  Basically two
lines to /etc/acpi/power.sh

Scott
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