On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 16:01 +0200, Miloslav Trmac wrote: > On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 09:41:08AM -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > Here's my problem.... why can't anacron and cron use different cronjobs? > > If the reason why updatedb was disabled by default even for cron was > > because anacron was running it... why can't anacron just be told to > > use a subset of scripts and let cron still do all the nightly stuff at > > 4 am.. if the computer is running at 4 am? Could we just restructure > > the cron.daily/ directory into two directories or something cron.daily > > and cron.daily.anacron/ > > and have anacron only from the stuff in cron.daily.anacron? > > > Yes, that's my vague plan: to make /etc/cron.maintenance or something. > This would work exactly like cron.daily except that it would be ignored > when the computer is running on battery. When it is reconnected to AC, > anacron is started to run the maintenance tasks. Would you also consider Dan's suggestion here[1]? anacron should try to run when the system is relatively idle in IO terms. Although updatedb is actually bearable now that CFQ is back as the default elevator, I still wouldn't want it to run in parallel with rpm. [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2005-April/msg00186.html -- Ziga