On Thursday 04 December 2003 09:38 am, Derek Jennings wrote:

>DJ  Plus I wanted to emphasise how useful it is for desktop users to install
>DJ  anacron. Without anacron to run jobs which a server would do in the
> middle of DJ  the night your logs and your tmp folder will become huge, and
> lots of DJ  necessary housekeeping will not get done. The downside is that
> anacron will DJ  cause the hard drive to go berserk 15 minutes after you
> boot your computer. DJ  Do not panic it isn't broken.
>DJ
>DJ  derek
>DJ

Derek, you can adjust the time that anacron updates the db though, right? 
Isn't that the part that really thrashes your HD on most (user/desktop) 
setups? For some reason I'm thinking it can be made to run later rather than 
sooner...

Personally, it never bothered me though... :-)

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