anacron

[Scott James Remnant]

On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 16:13 -0600, Martin Maney wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 10:28:34PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > 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
> 
> I don't know if starting and stopping anacron like that is a good idea. 
> I'd be worried about stopping it while it has one of the batches
> running - dunno if they'll be stopped by that, nor if it's safe if they
> are.
> 
They're run in a separate session, same as cron, from what I recall.

> (good for battery saving, certainly, but how many can be killed
> in mid-flight without causing any problems?)  Besides, anacron gets
> restarted from cron, no?
> 
Only if you're on AC power.

> Better, I think, but more work, if anacron itself were made battery-aware.
> 
It is -- but the Debian package only includes the APM side of things, we
need to add the ACPI equivalents.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
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