-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2006-05-28 at 02:25 +0200, Orn E. Hansen wrote:
However, your point about the log rotate is quite ok. Problem is, that despite all this cronjob stuff, I still have to do a "rm -f /var/log/*.gz" from time to time, as they're getting filled up.
Then change the configuration: they are first compressed, then deleted after some months.
So, even if I do allow the cron job to continue, it won't stop my harddisk from filling up, it'll just delay it. The same applies to the job that's supposed to "clear" the tmp directories. Most files in there will be owned be root jobs, they'll remain, and won't be cleared on startup.
Then just tell it to delete those! Hint: /etc/sysconfig/cron
Ok, I stated in the subject field that I was ranting. I'm simply pointing out, that on a modern desktop machine, it going asleep for an hour is something that in my mind has the word "oobs" written all over it. A cron job, is something that is to be done at lowest possible priority, imo. And I'm just pointing out the irritating effects, not wether it can or can't be "removed" from the system.
I agree that it slows the system some; but if your system is so slow as to be unusable, you have something wrong there. I will have a look at ionice when I install 10.1, it will be interesting. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEePattTMYHG2NR9URAgpaAKCYYcmHKYBdcPDpgmAj2MqdyNVg/ACbBHtf e7jNdYdmDCan3KcIHF7/Sio= =Vf1q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----