On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 08:28 +0200, Orn E. Hansen wrote:
I've been a bit amazed over the years, of the intense "updates" that usually are run in the cron, during the night times. Several times, I've been playing games, or just browsing the net on my desktop, during early morning hours, when my computer has gone to sleep when running the cron update. Usually this is a period, of a whole hour, and sometimes more. I've often mentioned it, and despite that this function is reduntant function from the old batch time hours of Unix, nobody has bothered removing it from the desktop linux environment.
Disable the "anacron" service. That's the service that runs missed "cron" jobs due to downtime/power-off. -- Bryan J. Smith Professional, technical annoyance mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org http://thebs413.blogspot.com ----------------------------------------------------------- Americans don't get upset because citizens in some foreign nations can burn the American flag -- Americans get upset because citizens in those same nations can't burn their own