On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 16:03, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Am Mit, 2001-12-19 um 15.45 schrieb Michael Schmitz: > > > > Or install anacron as well as the powerpc version of on_ac_power in > > > > /usr/bin: > > > > http://hadess.net/files/ppc/on_ac_power > > > > > > > > That should solve your problem with cron jobs going off while you're on > > > > battery. > > > > > > Great, this should go into pmud, like starting anacron on wakeup, > > > Colin's (no)atime remount, ... :) > > > > That's what pwrctl-local is good for, now isn't it? > > But you could include this suggestion as an example pwrctl-local?
I was going to suggest the same. :) > I have another problem, I had to put ifup and ifdown in my pwrctl-local. > Do you think this belongs there or would it be a good idea to put > "ifdown -a" and "ifup -a" in pwrctl? Why do you need that? The network card driver should handle sleep, maybe you just have to use a newer kernel. > > I'm not sure I like the noatime remount as default for the clueless user. > > Holding off on cron while on battery is a good idea, but I won't introduce > > a dependency on anacron for it. If it's just a matter of adding > > on_ac_power to /usr/bin, fine (a dependency on perl is pretty much what > > you can't escape with Debian). > You could add a test "[-x /usr/sbin/anacron] && exit" or something like > that into on_ac_power and not a dependency but a suggest for anacron. Neither of this is even needed. I have no idea how Michael came to think on_ac_power would depend on anacron in any way. ;) anacron uses on_ac_power to determine whether it should run the cronjobs or not. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
