locate + anacron
Scott James Remnant
scott at netsplit.com
Thu Nov 11 16:25:52 CST 2004
On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 08:40 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> What are the other cron jobs for which anacron would be important?
>
Log rotation, so your disk doesn't fill up with syslog.
wtmp/utmp rotation.
Man-page cache expiry and regeneration.
Scrollkeeper db regeneration.
Password file and dpkg status information backups.
lost+found warnings.
popcon data transmission.
Scott
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