On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Danie Roux wrote: > I moved it to 6:25, since it's rather frustrating if updatedb begins to > run while I'm compiling!
I do like the way that all crontab writers just go "better set it off at midnight then" under the assumption that nothing else is going to be running at the time, so on the dot of midnight there's suddenly this flurry of activity that sparks off which carries on 5 times longer than it should due to all the CPU/disk contention from simultaneous backup/logrotation/indexing/remounting/etc :-) -- Giles Constant, Systems Programmer Hyperlink Interactive http://www.hyperlink-interactive.co.uk