-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi,
On 09.11.2011 19:40, Robert Millan wrote: > For a system that's used regularly 20 mounts is basically one month. > I get the impression there's consensus on one month as a reasonable > interval. Probably, yes. It's a somewhat fair trade-off between beneficial checks and heavy I/O loads. > Would you use /etc/cron.monthly or a custom script to run first sunday > of every month like mdadm? That seems to be the best heuristic to me. After all, the site administrator can always tweak the cronjob to schedule it whenever he likes. Hence we shouldn't be worried too much /when/ to execute it, only /whether/ we should do so at all. > Running only on sunday sounds good, I wonder why doesn't > /etc/cron.monthly always run on sundays already. Maybe it has historic reasons? Besides, it's a locale interpretation of our hemisphere to presume Sunday morning is the least busy part of the week in terms of workloads. I'd guess in the Arabian world our Sunday workload low is reached Fridays there. - -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJOu6+6AAoJEMcrUe6dgPNt6hwP+gOMZEsHQeJqbaVQTuN3r1zM 6Vtrw0ow/MW+zdUp+vUnRjH5UGHnbfd7y/79JXVbVDt5epkcbh2k6FsTKEQjaR2R wiaI38ZWnWkwPgeIRufmx323948LQeLziBjXLAae+11V9Qz6Jgh7U3Nee9h4Lnvn nKZdwHOYnpk23xL281FroCrad1BLAk4CInrysO5VnYKxx+dEPmKS88tG8wCdJOcc sxsT/VpDGlyCItixfteEDt6hgNRdIRq5FT8A/Io5MJNgi+9E9Za46VtiR55M5oqp imAh53BSegO4S+Q97PDDKI/ir7aOsuEIyIOW/cVEUN8ol7P7e/zJQEndYSxn7U/v UF1vkgvR3liWILW/S/JUdU6jj/x0/C23n39bcZuG4H5A6S/1lRqa0EY1b+2NEuSE uCnDSyf8KIPa/X5T/XI+Xt0i+gyCXrvysukqFuyM4L0EnmqoqKGhhH0QYjK6FbRZ XerDWjQ/Zn2JfsOliLxsRhACjcZzFxd179gEcwAcpTyJLvvFWgwd/ZnRDSavb5Wv E1VnRHuEzjpzLVZzv5/4Is9Sa9sVOe6jXC4UwUFHgvjFUxW1Ukqa/mYaPx2YxA1Y SKndaOSbQYtpV8YcS6ISVUwMal/Dd4GWNxZ0rnQRsFcUjAIPS6sSwFoYIfwY6p0Y 1ck7AlTjRcgkH/gkolXX =iZy0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ebbafba.1080...@toell.net