In a previous message, Chris Geske wrote:

Why not leave the machines on all the time!

Because it's fairly noisy and is next to my bedroom! Not everyone is interested in running an always-on linux box. Some of us just need a desktop machine for office hourse... John -- John Pettigrew Headstrong Games john@headstrong-games.co.uk Fun : Strategy : Price http://www.headstrong-games.co.uk/ Board games that won't break the bank Valley of the Kings: ransack an ancient Egyptian tomb but beware of mummies!

There is another version of cron that is designed specifically for laptops that are not always on, just like this computer. Unfortunately I can't remember the name, but a search on freashmeat might help. -Stathis. Jerry Feldman wrote:

On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 19:32:57 GMT John Pettigrew wrote:

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In a previous message, Chris Geske wrote:

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Why not leave the machines on all the time!

Because it's fairly noisy and is next to my bedroom!

Not everyone is interested in running an always-on linux box. Some of us just need a desktop machine for office hourse... You canb't do it directly with cron, but set up a script to check the last time you were backed up, and set the cron to run at various times.

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On Monday 17 February 2003 1:23 pm, Karol Pietrzak wrote:

On Monday 17 February 2003 15:06, Rouvas Stathis wrote:

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There is another version of cron that is designed specifically for laptops that are not always on, just like this computer.

Unfortunately I can't remember the name, but a search on freashmeat might help.

Fcron?

"Fcron is a periodical command scheduler which aims at replacing Vixie Cron, so it implements most of its functionalities. [...]

Likewise there is "anacron", which has roughly the same description, and should be on your SuSE disks. OTOH, SuSE's current "cron.hourly/daily/weekly" methodology I think tries to work at an arbitrary time -- if you look closely at root's crontab, you see that every 15 minutes the "run-crons" task is fired; this task looks in the cron.<dirname> directories for tasks to execute, and only executes them if "/var/cron/lastrun" is missing or older than the time interval [I think it is /var/cron/lastrun -- check to be sure] Basically, I think you can put your backup script in "/etc/cron.daily", then either "at midnight" or "up to 15 minutes after you boot up", your daily backup will run. I suspect, however, running a backup 15 minutes into using the system will be, shall we say, "rather anoying?" -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net