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
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It's not actually harmful. Debian runs a cron job daily, at around 6:42
a.m. and one of the invoked is a find script. This script grinds your
harddisk for all files in your harddisk and puts it in a file called
locatedb. Very useful if you use the program locate a lot (like me.).
> 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?
none that i can think of. But you can reschedule your cronjobs at a time
where you usually use your computer.
regards,
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