On 20. aprill 2005. a. 10:10, Mike A. Harris wrote: > > There are many possible solutions in theory. > > <5 good suggestions snipped> > > I'm sure others might have additional suggestions. Feel free > to comment on mine. I think the problem is most visible to people like me who turn off our systems when we aren't using them. Perhaps there could be a "slow shutdown" that would tell anacron to run things like updatedb and prelink before shutting down. The user would choose whether to "shutdown now" or "shutdown after running maintenance utilities". Checking whether the system is using battery power could also be part of this slow shutdown. Fred