On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, OS wrote: > Hello, > > Maybe I'm feeling sensitive since my road accident, but how come this guy > gets nice sensible comments when he raises this point and I just get a load > of "there, there - maybe you should try the newbie list. Cooker is for the > real developers you know" type of comments !!! > > ;-)
Well, I thought your points where valid. I didn't bash you. :) But the thing is, my question is not how to turn these processes off, my question is if it's wise to have CPU intensive programs (which the user might not need) running at every boot. Because yes, a lot of us do turn our computers off during the night, which makes the nightly cron jobs run right after boot. It does turn a lot of new user off, I know that. I thought the idea that Martin had was good. The idea of having something on the screen notifying the user that a cron job is running. Perhaps an icon appearing in the panel (an icon of the Greek god Chronus perhaps) on which the user could double-click to get some info, and maybe also the chance to remove the program from /etc/cron*. Regards, Mattias
