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From: Charles Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: cron: should run at less intrusive hour
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Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-86
Severity: wishlist
I am running several low-memory servers, and cron.daily consistently
overloads the servers. Given that the times in /etc/crontab are fairly
random to begin with, I would find it most helpful if the times selected
for daily/weekly/monthly cron jobs was moved to sometime between 3am and
5am, which I expect is generally the minimal use time for many servers.
I realize that I can manually change the file, but it seems reasonable
to may to modify the default times to begin with.
Charles
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Subject: Re: Bug#295699: cron: should run at less intrusive hour
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On 17-Feb-05, 09:23 (CST), Charles Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I realize that I can manually change the file, but it seems reasonable
> to may to modify the default times to begin with.
I'm not going to do this, for two reasons:
1. Inevitably, someone else will object to the change, and request that
the time be reverted. I'm not going to start that game. This kind of
fine tuning is entirely a local matter, and should be handled locally.
2. People may have entries in /etc/cron.d based on assumptions about
when the standard jobs run. If they've not modified /etc/crontab, this
would be a silent change.
3. Those who *have* modified /etc/crontab (perhaps to adjust the time
the jobs run) will be bugged by the conffile interface.
In summary: too intrusive for too little value.
Steve
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