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Just change crontab
Authored by: Anonymous on May 04, '02 09:10:16AM

I guess this hint could be useful for some people.

My take on it (for my desktop machine) was to change the /etc/crontab to run the scripts in the 6 AM hour when the machine is pretty sure to be on and idle. That way I can comfortably shut down the machine when going to sleep at night. (I really don't care for "uptime" geek creds.) I am an early riser and turn it on first thing, so I know it will be on at 6 AM.



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