/etc/cron.daily/apt hangs [deviated discussion]

[Nils Kassube]

Daevid Vincent wrote:
> Switching off/on a desktop is so bad for the hardware. It's better to
> just leave them on.

Can you explain what part of the hardware will be damaged from regular 
switching on/off? I'm using computers at home for >20 years and I have 
always switched them off when I'm not at home and during the night. I 
don't think I had any harware fail within the first 5 years of their 
life.

> Especially any Unix flavor -- for exactly the 
> reasons we're discussing here. Crontabs need to be run. Having them all
> "catchup" later (via anacron) is a kludge.

IIRC, this desktop machine I am using right now needs about 70W. If I keep 
it running over night only for a few cron jobs it would cost me an extra 
40 €uro per year. Therefore I prefer the anacron kludge.


Nils