Author: Russell Gadd Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Cron jobs for largely dormant systems (Debian)
On 15/02/2008, Dr Adam J Trickett <adam.trickett@???> wrote: >
> 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.
>
> --
> Adam Trickett
> Overton, HANTS, UK
>
> Richard and Adam - thanks for the suggestion - I wasn't aware of this, but
I see it will solve the problem.
