From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 15 12:16:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (unknown [209.133.28.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B46637B4CF for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 12:16:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from whenever ([216.152.68.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 12:15:50 -0800 From: "David Schwartz" To: , Subject: RE: how can I run utilities at idle time? Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 12:16:35 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I would like to run a cron type service, but the utilities run from this > servic (updating the locate database, for example) should only take up > idle time on the computer. Does anybody know how to do this? I'm afraid that's really just not possible. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message