Re: updatedb+checksecurity are killing my battery

2001-12-20 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > OK, thanks for spelling that out, finally. Since on_ac_power is normally > > provided by apmd and pmud conflicts with apmd I see no problem adding the > > script. I'd like to wait for snooze to become Unix domain socket aware > > before releasing 0.10 though. > > 0.8-2 would be fine with me. :

Re: updatedb+checksecurity are killing my battery

2001-12-20 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 10:44, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > You could add a test "[-x /usr/sbin/anacron] && exit" or something like > > > that into on_ac_power and not a dependency but a suggest for anacron. > > > > Neither of this is even needed. I have no idea how Michael came to think > > on_ac_po

Re: updatedb+checksecurity are killing my battery

2001-12-20 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > You could add a test "[-x /usr/sbin/anacron] && exit" or something like > > that into on_ac_power and not a dependency but a suggest for anacron. > > Neither of this is even needed. I have no idea how Michael came to think > on_ac_power would depend on anacron in any way. ;) anacron uses Must

Re: updatedb+checksecurity are killing my battery

2001-12-19 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 16:03, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Am Mit, 2001-12-19 um 15.45 schrieb Michael Schmitz: > > > > Or install anacron as well as the powerpc version of on_ac_power in > > > > /usr/bin: > > > > http://hadess.net/files/ppc/on_ac_power > > > > > > > > That should solve your problem wi

Re: updatedb+checksecurity are killing my battery

2001-12-19 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > That's what pwrctl-local is good for, now isn't it? > > But you could include this suggestion as an example pwrctl-local? Sure, but I'd rather stick the examples in /usr/share/doc. > I have another problem, I had to put ifup and ifdown in my pwrctl-local. > Do you think this belongs there or

Re: updatedb+checksecurity are killing my battery

2001-12-19 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, 2001-12-19 um 15.45 schrieb Michael Schmitz: > > > Or install anacron as well as the powerpc version of on_ac_power in > > > /usr/bin: > > > http://hadess.net/files/ppc/on_ac_power > > > > > > That should solve your problem with cron jobs going off while you're on > > > battery. > > > > Gre

Re: updatedb+checksecurity are killing my battery

2001-12-19 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > Or install anacron as well as the powerpc version of on_ac_power in > > /usr/bin: > > http://hadess.net/files/ppc/on_ac_power > > > > That should solve your problem with cron jobs going off while you're on > > battery. > > Great, this should go into pmud, like starting anacron on wakeup, > Coli

Re: updatedb+checksecurity are killing my battery

2001-12-18 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 16:12, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 04:26, Kin Chung wrote: > > > > > > > > >Laurent de Segur wrote: > > > > >I am trying to minimize the power consumption of my laptop... > > > > > [on reducing hd usage] > > > > > >The first one is updatedb which I moved

Re: updatedb+checksecurity are killing my battery

2001-12-18 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 04:26, Kin Chung wrote: > > > > >Laurent de Segur wrote: > > >I am trying to minimize the power consumption of my laptop... > > > [on reducing hd usage] > > > >The first one is updatedb which I moved from daily to weekly. > > If you rarely add packages to your machine, yo

Re: updatedb+checksecurity are killing my battery

2001-12-17 Thread Kin Chung
Laurent de Segur wrote: I am trying to minimize the power consumption of my laptop... [on reducing hd usage] The first one is updatedb which I moved from daily to weekly. If you rarely add packages to your machine, you might consider moving it from weekly to monthly or even take it of

Re: updatedb+checksecurity are killing my battery

2001-12-10 Thread Colin Walters
Laurent de Segur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > End result: I get longer battery life. However, there is probably > something I missed that could help more in this direction. I would > appreciate if people on the list could post more hints in order to > get more juice off the hook. Thanks in advan

Re: updatedb+checksecurity are killing my battery

2001-12-10 Thread Eric C. Cooper
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 06:21:23PM -0800, Laurent de Segur wrote: > End result: I get longer battery life. However, there is probably > something I missed that could help more in this direction. I would > appreciate if people on the list could post more hints in order to get > more juice off th

updatedb+checksecurity are killing my battery

2001-12-10 Thread Laurent de Segur
Hi, I am trying to minimize the power consumption of my laptop when I take it on the road (well, more precisely, the coffee shop.) Here are a couple of changes I made in order to ease up the hard disk usage: The cron standard daily and standard maintenance task is running two scripts that