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William Kenworthy wrote: | I am having problems with vixie-cron: My laptop is usually turned off | at night and cron.daily is set to run by the gentoo default at 03.01am. | Even if I start it up at 6am and let it sit for a couple of hours, it | picks up the missing cron job(s) sometime after 9am (not sure when | exactly). Where does gentoo set this timing so I can alter it. | | Its a real drag that updatedb, tripwire etc all startup (at the same | time). This will place it smack in the middle of regular presentations | using OO I will be giving over the next few weeks! At this time, the | laptop will be running on battery (this type of disk usage severely | reduces battery time - from ~1.75 hrs to ~1 hr) and speedstep drops the | clock from 2.2G to 1.2G (to increase battery time!) so there is even | less grunt to run OO.
Try to replace vixie-vron with fcron. The latter provides much more control over the jobs, including system load depended tasks and other useful things. Try it, you'll like it. :)
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