yeah, leave your laptop on overnight. I do it...
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 09:40:17PM +0100, Robert wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:48:35 -0500
> Ted Unangst <ted.unan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Are you sitting around feeling bored because you don't know how to
> > help out OpenBSD? Did your requests for info on where to start come
> > back with unhelpful responses? I've got just the thing for you: an
> > idea!
> >
> > Cron runs the weekly update script every Saturday at 3:30am. If you
> > use a laptop or other desktop, your computer probably isn't on then.
> > So the locate and whatis databases never get updated unless you run it
> > by hand.
> >
> > So somebody should figure out a way to handle this for desktop
> > machines.
>
>
> Script called from cron via @reboot or rc.shutdown .
> By default commented out. Mentioned in afterboot.
>
> Check if daily, weekly or monthly need to be executed.
> If nessasary the script asks if it should do its stuff, warns it might
> take some time.
> Default answer No, so a quick <Enter> resumes shutdown/reboot.
> If no button has been pressed after $timeout (knob in script),
> resume shutdown/reboot.
> If user wants to do stuff, do what needs to be done and resume
> shutdown/reboot.
>
> Should take care of all the "on shutdown/reboot" scenarios;
> like battery low or the mentioned unmount crytpo-fs clean now.
> Impact can be minimized by lowering $timeout. Default timeout should be
> long enough to read and understand the message.
>
> Problem: Shutdown on systems where powerdown doesn't work and the user
> would have to wait for the script to finish, to turn his system off.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> - Robert
