Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 01:39:02 -0800 From: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Leaving a Computer Running ? Message-ID: <20050206093902.GN8619@alzatex.com> In-Reply-To: <20050206013000.GB49637@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200502051745.25937.hindrich@worldchat.com> <20050206013000.GB49637@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 12:00:01PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Saturday, 5 February 2005 at 17:45:25 -0500, Peterhin wrote: > > > > Is it better to leave a computer (a stand alone) running continuously or > > is it OK to shut it down at the end of the day.? > > I remember years ago someone mentioned that it is better for the > > circuitry to leave it running. > > Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated > > I won't jump in on the bikeshed about the effects on the electronics. > A thing that nobody has mentioned so far is that by default, the > system performs a number of functions (via cron) in the middle of the > night. If you turn it off, you should check /etc/crontab and decide > when to perform the nightly maintenance. sysutils/anacron is a program that runs on boot and determines what cron jobs would of been run while the system wasn't running then starts them. > > Greg > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > See complete headers for address and phone numbers. -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C
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