From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 3 21:46:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE61914E59 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 21:46:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA35153; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 21:30:49 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 21:30:49 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cron on laptops In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You might want to run ntpdate or fetchmail, for example, every hour or two. I suppose if you did a little shell scripting you could ask cron to rebuild the locate database (or run periodic weekly, etc.) if the date on the locate database file was older than the current date by some amount. It's probably easier to just run these by hand when you want to, though. Annelise On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > Are there any practical uses for cron and crontabs on a workstation laptop > with a dialup PPP connection? I mean, since you don't know what times you > will be powered up.... And i guess this goes for all FBSD machines that > get turned off every day. > > -jonathon > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message