From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 28 6:21:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (mta6.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70EA837B404 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 06:21:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from blackbox.pacbell.net ([64.166.84.95]) by mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with ESMTP id <0GQN00HTXJW9DT@mta6.snfc21.pbi.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 06:21:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mikem@localhost) by blackbox.pacbell.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0SELso54478; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 06:21:54 -0800 (PST envelope-from mikem) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 06:21:54 -0800 From: Mike Makonnen Subject: Re: Anything wrong with changing the time cron.daily runs? In-reply-to: <20020127215406.U40283-100000@localhost> To: Donald Burr of Borg Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <200201281421.g0SELso54478@blackbox.pacbell.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd5.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <20020127215406.U40283-100000@localhost> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 21:57:53 -0800 (PST) Donald Burr of Borg wrote: > Is there anything wrong with changing the time that > daily/weekly/monthly maintenance runs to, say, around noon or 1pm in the> afternoon? Will this be bad for the FreeBSD system in any way, shape or> form? > No, the only reason it's run at that time of night is because most people aren't usually up and using it at 3 am in the morning. Depending on how fast your system is any other processes running at the same time may not be as responsive while the scripts do their thing. cheers, mike makonnen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message