On Tuesday 27 June 2006 22:43, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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).
I can see the rationale, but it doesn't hold water. If the system is not on continuously, it is inherently less likely that the tasks need to be run every 24 hours, so why not let the user choose when he/she wants to run them?
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.
I have - that's why I called it a rat's nest :-)
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 ;-)
Say what??? Awareness through obscurity?? That's what I was getting at, the idea that you have to be some sort of initiate to know the nous.
Otherwise, you ask here, or browse the archive, it's been commented "hundreds" of times :-p
Well, I've been on this list since 98, and I don't really remember it coming up all that often before, but maybe I'm getting old.
But true, it could be clearly documented, or configured in Yast. There are settings in Yast to adjust it, in fact.
LOL. These settings (/etc/sysconfig Editor -> Applications -> Locate) allow you to run it or not, who to run it as, and what paths to include or skip, but nothing as obvious as a time to run it at, which was the OP's problem. That's my point - it can't be harder to code a time setting than it is to code one of these settings, and yet nobody seems to have thought to do it :-) -- Pob hwyl / Best wishes Kevin Donnelly www.kyfieithu.co.uk - KDE yn Gymraeg www.eurfa.org.uk - Geiriadur rhydd i'r Gymraeg www.rhedadur.org.uk - Rhedeg berfau Cymraeg www.cymrux.org.uk - Linux Cymraeg ar un CD -- 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