Joakim Aronius wrote on Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 09:32:05AM +0100: > * Ingo Schwarze (schwa...@usta.de) wrote:
>> situation, so i consider tedu@'s question unanswered. I'm not even sure >> there is a good solution at all: Jan Stary and Jonathan Thornburg have >> presented strong arguments indicating that "run it manually at the time >> you want it" might be the best answer. > What about a new script that runs daily/weekly/monthly as needed to make > it a bit simpler. The user would then not have to keep track of which > script to run. This script could be called manually or the user could > ad it in cron or shutdown script as it suits the user/machine. Simplifying a bit: Run weekly(8) and monthly(8) from daily(8) instead of from cron(8), but only when the last run is at least a week or a month ago, respectively. This is similar in spirit to the way security(8) is run. Main advantage: When your notebook is in use every N-th night, the weekly(8) mean period decreases from 7*N days to 7+(N-1)/2 days. Bonus: Get rid of duplicate functions in weekly(8) and monthly(8). Side effect: daily(8), weekly(8) and monthly(8) run one after the other, not in intervals of two hours. In some setups, this might be a bonus, in some others, an inconvenience. Thoughts?
