-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2006-06-27 at 12:34 +0100, Kevin Donnelly wrote:
Useful info, Carlos - thanks. For the life of me I can't understand why there is this rat's nest of scripts, with such an unintuitive way to decide when they ought to be run - I thought one of the benefits of cron was supposed to be its simplicity, but this is hidden away here under multiple layers. The user is expected to work out that in order to run these tasks at a particular time, he has to set up a cronjob to delete a file that says they haven't been done yet??? It's logic, Jim, but not as we know it....
Well, the thing is, cron is designed for systems that stay continuously on, but that is not the case for most home users (and business users should power off their computers when not used for the environment sake). The method used by SuSE ensure that any script stored in /etc/cron.daily/ once a day, although at a not easily known hour. If the computer is on continuously, then it will run every day at the same time; if it is on now and then, it will run soon after 24 hours have passed since the last time, (within 15' of power up). It has been so since I have known SuSE around version 5.2, but with some variations in the code. Have a look at '/usr/lib/cron/run-crons' for some info. The alternative would be to use "anacron" instead, but that is not even included in the distro.
Why can't there be a page at install time, or a module in YaST, saying "Your PC will need to carry out some housekeeping tasks from time to time - select a time of the day when you would like these done"? I sometimes think the SUSE engineers believe it's cool to be obscure for the sake of it, and useability suffers.
People that need to know it, do know it ;-) Otherwise, you ask here, or browse the archive, it's been commented "hundreds" of times :-p But true, it could be clearly documented, or configured in Yast. There are settings in Yast to adjust it, in fact. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEoaaQtTMYHG2NR9URAthQAJ0e1/6yKdLgkO/n0nPVcAp9xWbgCgCcD9bb 9EBevwZppL9rtazd9Un0n4k= =PDj0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com