On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 11:07:07PM +0200, Guido Piazzi wrote: > Mah... io non ho fatto altro che modificare /etc/crontab in modo che i > vari servizi vengano eseguiti fra le 20 e le 21 (quando ho il computer > acceso a far niente) anzich� fra le 6 e le 7 di mattina, quando � sempre > spento perch� o sono gi� fuori o dormo!
Una soluzione molto piu' elegante e' usare anacron:
> dpkg -p anacron
[snip]
> Description: a cron-like program that doesn't go by time
> Anacron (like `anac(h)ronistic') is a periodic command scheduler. It
> executes commands at intervals specified in days. Unlike cron, it
> does not assume that the system is running continuously. It can
> therefore be used to control the execution of daily, weekly and
> monthly jobs (or anything with a period of n days), on systems that
> don't run 24 hours a day. When installed and configured properly,
> Anacron will make sure that the commands are run at the specified
> intervals as closely as machine-uptime permits.
> .
> This package is pre-configured to execute the daily jobs of the Debian
> system. You should install this program if your system isn't powered on
> 24 hours a day to make sure the maintenance jobs of other Debian packages
> are executed each day.
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