On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 17:38, Mr. Adam ALLEN wrote: > On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 21:55, Chris Kloiber wrote: > > Does it consistently run at the wrong time if you left it on 24x7? I > > thought anacron was modified so it would wait a bit after the machine > > was turned on to run anything that was missed while the machine was off. > > IIRC, this was so that the user would not have to wait 5-10 minutes > > after the machine was powered on before it became usable. > > > > My laptop certainly waits just long enough for me to be busy working on > something before it kicks in-- rather than it running 12 hours out... I was thinking the 12 hours was a coincidence. I believe they said the machines were on for about an hour when the updatedb kicked off. I also said I was guessing, and might be totally wrong. :) -- Chris Kloiber -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
