Okay Mathieu thanks for explaining the obvious
to me. (I need that ocassionally)! :-)
The anacron package is indeed functional and I
do remember reading about it's ability to "catch up"
after the computer is powered up. I wanted it installed
for that express purpose because I don't leave my
machine on 24/7. Thanks for taking the time to explain
this (again!) to me. Although I would think some record
would exist in the logs somewhere outlining this activity,
I may have just missed it somewhere. On the other query
cron keeps trying to remove modules every ten minutes
whether there are any installed or not. I'll continue to read
and study this magnificent OS!
Vern
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> I don't know about your rmmod problem, but I can explain you the disk
> activity.
>
> I suppose you've installed the package anacron, that is like cron, except
> that it executes commands the better way it can. I mean, if your machine was
> powered off at the time you said you wanted to synchronize your machine with
> a time host, then, with a normal crontab, if you boot you won't synchronize
> at all except if you let your machine run several hours (just the time to
> get the exact date when the cron job has to execute). With anachron, all the
> jobs that had to execute during the out-of-power time will execute after
> boot time, and it will of course execute others jobs as would do a normal
> cron.
>
> So, the disk activity you hear is simply the anacron job to update the
> updatedb, so that you can do a locate file with always accurate data.
>
> Do a man anacron one day !
>
> [Sorry if what I say here is not completely accurate but I've never done the
> man myself ;-) I've simply read the sum-up of the anacron package, thought
> it was a very good idea, and wondered the same questions about disk activity
> after start up ! ;-)]
>
> Regards
>
> Mathieu
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: vern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: lundi 10 avril 2000 23:22
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [expert] cron and rmmod?
> >
> >
> > On looking at my logs I wondered
> > is it absolutely necessary to have
> > cron run rmmod -as every ten minutes?
> > I have a lot of strange hard drive
> > activity about two minutes after I boot
> > up. It's like something is checking out
> > the file system or something. But there
> > is no entry in any log that I can see as to
> > what this activity is. Any clues? No errors
> > or no problems so far (been running Mdk 7.0
> > for two days so far) just curious.
> > Thanks for reading this!
> > Vern
> >
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