On Thu, 15 May 1997, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > This morning I worked on my home debian system at a very early time > (for me, that is), from 6:30 a.m on. All of a sudden my hard disk > begins to crackle, opening a new window takes longer than normal (I > have a lowly 486DX100), and after starting top I see that `nobody' is > running `find' (it's amazing, isn't it ? :). I soon realized that this > was cron running the cron.daily scripts. I never thought about this > before, but it may very well have been the first time these scripts > were run, my computer at home is usually switched off at this time. > Now comes my question: > > Could this be harmful? > > I think a lot of people using linux at home don't leave their computer > switched on continuously. Has anyone ever thought of a system that > would spot missed cron events and run them at a later time? Would this > be useful at all? > > Eric Meijer > > -- My computer is at home and I have noticed the noisy disk activity to. It seems to be associated with syslogd being restarted. May 15 06:43:35 macrae syslogd 1.3-0#13: restart.
How can I schedule this job for a more appropriate time? ***************************************************************************** John Maheu Queen's University Dept. of Economics Kingston ON Canada K7L 3N6 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ****************************************************************************** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .