On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 12:24:15AM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > It would be bad advice to disable the daily/weekly/monthly jobs > on all non-server systems. I mean, when the machine is switched off, > they do no harm. When the machine is occasionally running during the > night, they will at least run from time to time, which usually won't > do any harm either and might even be useful.
You must have missed my earlier message in this thread http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=126436422607058 I argue that the daily/weekly scripts can be harmful on laptops. My laptop never runs during the middle of the night, except when I'm doing important mission-critical work. I have had two incidents where the daily/weekly scripts have interfered with that work (by removing files from /tmp and by causing a buffer underflow while CD-burning). In my case, it is best to disable the cronjobs for the daily/weekly scripts and to run them manually instead.
