Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 04, 2005 04:23 PM
many distribution don't include anacron.
It is useless to have cron to run at midnight (or 4AM) if your desktop PC is off at that hour. Cron will not run and logrotate too.
there is trend among pc's user not to shutdown their PC at night even if they don't do anything with it... oh my<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... do some energy savings please
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 04, 2005 04:23 PMIt is useless to have cron to run at midnight (or 4AM) if your desktop PC is off at that hour. Cron will not run and logrotate too.
there is trend among pc's user not to shutdown their PC at night even if they don't do anything with it... oh my<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... do some energy savings please
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