What does AC power have to do with run-parts ?? run-parts is just a utility to run all the scripts in a directory.
I think you should think where else this problem should be solved - possible the answer is to modify your /etc/crontab. Yes. On second thought I shouldn't be running cron on this particular laptop at all. The default configuration for cron does bad things to the laptop. However, savelog is a part of the cron package. And, I very much need savelog on this machine. What I've done for the moment is: (1) edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/cron.list to remove the entry referring to savelog. (2) dpkg --purge cron (3) put a named /etc/rc.boot/savelog on the system which runs savelog on all /var/log/* files that don't have numbers in their names, then deletes all emtpy files with numbers in their names. Which brings me back to your question: "What does AC power have to do with run-parts ??" I think there's a good answer to this question, but I doubt the above workaround to the current package implementation of cron will occur to very many people. -- Raul