anacron: missing, or do you use some other mechanism?

[Martin Pitt]

Hi!

Martin Maney [2004-10-16  9:20 -0500]:
> 
> Although our desktops here at the home/office are usually left on 24x7,
> our laptops and some others aren't; likewise many of the end-user boxes
> Ubuntu is targeted at would likely be shutdown overnight and other
> times.  I've always used anacron to accomodate this sort of usage in the
> past, to get logs rotated and so forth, and IME it works pretty well. 
> But anacron is only in universe in the warty repository, so obviously
> it's not used in a normal install.  Is this an oversight, or does
> Ubuntu use some other solution to the problem of getting periodic
> maintenance done on machine that aren't up and running 24x7?

No, we do not have another solution. There is a bug about it [1] which
claims that anacron still has some bugs.

I don't let any of my desktops run 24x7 (it's a giant waste of energy)
and install anacron on all my machines. It works perfectly for me, but
if you encounter any bugs, please report them as bug followup.

Martin

[1] https://bugzilla.ubuntulinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303
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