-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > It seems that the following Debian commit which introduces a > temporary file has an unfortunate side-effect: > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-cron/pkg- > cron.git;a=commitdiff;h=e61050367866fb1b627e2c004d370914eced70cb > > Indeed even if cron has nothing to do, a temporary file is always > created in /tmp and immediatly deleted. > > I am trying to reduce the power consumption of my server and this > patch had the effect of waking-up the hard-drive every hour. > > Maybe it is possible to prevent the temporary file creation if cron > has nothing to do ?
With "nothing to do", do mean "no jobs are run" or "jobs do not create output"? In any case, a simple solution would be to have a tmpfs on /tmp. This is trivial to do with Wheezy (see /etc/default/tmpfs), and still easy with Squeeze. Christian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlGu//wACgkQwSyarY0epjX6JgCeNJ9KM7vpudKvueQ+EBERNpQo jeIAnjNXziel3gQ+H2sHRqiR7FOPxijW =5oHu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
