Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (850 mails)

[Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 02:54:21PM +0200, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
> >>> James Ogley <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 09/04/06 3:24 PM >>>
> >>  * SuSEconfig.susehelp (package: susehelp)
> >>    -> cron? + initscript?
> >
> >I think cron for this, there's no inherent reason that I can think of
> >why this shouldn't just be done at 0100.
> 
> Not everybody has it's computer running 24hrs a day, and cron lacks the
> feature of starting tasks that were skipped.  I for my part don't have
> to let the computer run if there's no specific task to be done... so
> please: don't even think about cron scheduled jobs for system
> maintenance... they will just not work as requested

Incorrect.

If you add the tasks to "daily" it will be done, even if your machine
was not switched on.

Ciao, Marcus
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