On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 21:16:26 -0700 (PDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David E.
Fox) wrote:
> > Most servers on the Internet or serving industries that need 24/7
> > service must run 24/7. I don't know if Linus originally was aiming for
> > the server market, or what his intent was. ;-)
>
> Well, he wanted a way to run Unix cheaply using a desktop environment, and
> one of the features of Unix is that it is multiuser, and unlike other
> systems (i.e., "personal" computer OSes) is designed to run 24/7. I remember
> one of the first Unix books I picked up stressed this point. And since it
> has services like crond, logging, and so forth, the system needs to be on
> to process these events. (DOS at that time had no such features; the closest
> we came to that was a robot comm program we could use to autodownload stuff
> at 3 am or whatever.)
>
> I think this rationale predates the notion of "server" as we use it today.
>
> > Randy Kramer
If you have anacron running, cron jobs which were unable to be run at their
scheduled times will run the next time the CPU is idle. This can get annoying
if, say, you boot up your computer in the morning to do some work and anacron
kicks in to execute a cron job that should've run at 4am.
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan.
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LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
-- Jeremy S. Anderson
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