Re: [Hampshire] Cron jobs for largely dormant systems (Debia…

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Author: Dr Adam J Trickett
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Cron jobs for largely dormant systems (Debian)
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 at 03:04:36PM +0000, Richard Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Russell Gadd
> <russ.mail.lists@???> wrote:
> > What do others do for their home PC's if they are not on all the time?
>
> Have a look at anacron.


As suggested by Richard anacron is the canonical solution.

Many jobs can be manually run or totally rescheduled should you
want to. If you are new to Linux tinkering about with these jobs
is probably more effort than it's worth, let anacron take care of
things and you should be okay.

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Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK

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