On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Sascha Wildner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michel Salim schrieb: >> >> Is there anything like Linux's anacron on the BSDs? It would just run >> any cron jobs missed because the computer was not on. Not sure if it >> can be configured to only kick off after the rest of the boot process >> has been completed though; that would avoid the "doing heavy IO at >> start-up" concern. > > Anacron is in pkgsrc (time/anacron). Never used it personally, though. > So: - not a good option, since it's not part of the core OS? - or, alternatively, laptop users who use Hammer are assumed to know what they are doing
Another solution would be to do a cleanup every N mounts (similar to the tunable file system option for ext2/3 on Linux that would run fsck every N mounts); but this would not work for laptop users who just suspend their machines at night. Regards, -- miʃel salim • http://hircus.jaiku.com/ IUCS • [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fedora • [EMAIL PROTECTED] MacPorts • [EMAIL PROTECTED]
