FC7 test4 Live CD runs makewhatis and prelink cron jobs

[Miles Lane]

On 4/28/07, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Friday 27 April 2007 23:15:50 Michael Wiktowy wrote:
> > My marginal system is drooling all over itself as I type this as I try
> > to kill of enough processes to get it responsive. Is there any reason
> > at all to run anacron on the LiveCD? It has made my system comatose.
>
> Because the LiveCD can be installed to run native on the system, and there you
> want things like this to run.  I think a good strategy for this is to add
> support to either these cron jobs or the applications themselves to see if
> they're running in a stateless environment and "opt-out" of running.

How about also checking whether the machine is running off of battery power?
Stuff that scans the whole hard drive seems inappropriate unless running
off of AC.