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On 04/17/10 23:08, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Saturday 17 April 2010 14:59:09 Lie Ryan wrote: |
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>> On 04/17/10 18:47, Mick wrote: |
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>>> On Friday 16 April 2010 22:25:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>>>> On Friday 16 April 2010 20:29:27 Dale wrote: |
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>>> Blimey! That sounds like horribly_broken! |
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>>> Which cron do you recommend for a desktop? |
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>> One question, do you actually need cron for desktop? I installed vixie |
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>> because the installation manual says to, but never need to write any |
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>> cron rule for anything and I don't think there any program I uses |
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>> installs a cron rule. So why bother with cron? |
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> A default install will configure cron to run |
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> mkwhatis |
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> slocate |
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> logrotate |
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> updatepciids |
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> updateusbids |
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I don't install `locate` as I don't have that many files to start with |
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and `find` is more than adequate for when I need to search (and I |
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typically only do searches on newly downloaded file or system files, |
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those that aren't indexed in locate's database in the first place). In a |
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typical desktop system you only rarely actually read logs (typically |
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only when debugging kernel, X, and failed emerge; you don't meet kernel |
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OOPS every day, don't you?), for the rest of the times I could probably |
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live without logging and I can turn it on when I need to examine some |
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logs. A typical desktop system do not update their hardware everyday and |
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running those updater programs manually isn't such a pain when you do |
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(on the other hand I run `emerge --sync` and `q -r` every week, but then |
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I still much prefer running emerges manually). And bash's tab completion |
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is much more efficient for searching commands than `whatis`. |
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So I don't think a typical desktop system gets crippled much without |
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cron (or even logging). Yes, you lose some features, and you will need |
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to manually update system's database and do certain things manually |
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which otherwise would have been handled for you; but if I have to choose |
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between wasting system resources running cron/logging or losing features |
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I use once in a month, I probably would not bother with cron. |
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