It's in the /etc/crontab file where you can set the time for running those
various updates or use anacrontab for which you must enable the daemon. I too
switch my computer off at night and I ended up with monstrous files in
/var/log since the log rotates were set at 4 in the morning and therefo
I am enjoying your posts, Heimo. What I recently read
somewhere about leaving computers on overnight related to
prevention of thermal stress in components transitioning from
relative hot to cold, and back. Isn't component failure rather
rare these days in either case? When was the last time someon
On 27 Sep 2002, Heimo Claasen wrote:
> BTW, _once_ I stumbled (per pure chance and hazard) into the place where
> this mount counter is set, gladly changed it from 20 (yes, that _was_
> the default) to 99 (ouf, I dare say, still a "safe and secure" setting);
> but one bad day I did a new install
Which reminds me of one of my beloved taglines:
* And why does my computer suddenly think it's April? *
On a less serious note, based on the impression that it's indeed a
stand-alone unit: Why is that thing _running_ at all at 4:40 AM
and when you sleep ?
At least I prefer to shut tools and mac
Howdy, Dragos LUNGU:
Thanks. You are right. I did a 'cat'
and that was the only line!
Geesh, I added 'updatedb' to rc.local thinking that I was
updating my database. It would have happened at the next
04:40 anyway! :-|
I guess that I will remove that line from my rc.local from
all my lin
On Thursday 26 September 2002 10:05, Chuck Gelm wrote:
> G'day, Y'all:
>
> I awoke at 04:40 AM today when the internal speaker of my
> Win2k boxen started sounding a tone. While I was up shutting
> it down, I noticed the HD activity lamp on my linux firewall
> was indicating activity. I selecte
At 06:05 AM 9/26/02 -0400, Chuck Gelm wrote:
>G'day, Y'all:
>
> I awoke at 04:40 AM today when the internal speaker of my
>Win2k boxen started sounding a tone. While I was up shutting
>it down, I noticed the HD activity lamp on my linux firewall
>was indicating activity. I selected the console
G'day, Y'all:
I awoke at 04:40 AM today when the internal speaker of my
Win2k boxen started sounding a tone. While I was up shutting
it down, I noticed the HD activity lamp on my linux firewall
was indicating activity. I selected the console window where
I leave 'top' running. I found that 'f
