laptops and cron maintenance

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

ons, 20.04.2005 kl. 09.40 skrev Fred New:
> On 20. aprill 2005. a. 10:10, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> > 
> > There are many possible solutions in theory.
> > 
> > <5 good suggestions snipped>
> > 
> > I'm sure others might have additional suggestions.  Feel free
> > to comment on mine.
> 
> I think the problem is most visible to people like me who
> turn off our systems when we aren't using them.  Perhaps
> there could be a "slow shutdown" that would tell anacron to
> run things like updatedb and prelink before shutting down.
> The user would choose whether to "shutdown now" or "shutdown
> after running maintenance utilities".  Checking whether the
> system is using battery power could also be part of this
> slow shutdown.
> 
> Fred

Hmm... That reminds me of something i have seen on a windows system. I
think it was "apply updates and shut down" - but i don't know exactly,
as i never really use windows systems...

Kyrre