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Re: Anacron (was: Add "nice -10" to /etc/crontab run-parts comma



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On Wed, 9 Jun 1999 00:27:35 +0200 (CEST), Remco Blaakmeer wrote:

>I run a number crunching program (see http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm) 
>in the background (with 'nice -20 ...'), but that doesn't mean the mostly
>disk-intensive cron jobs shouldn't be run.

>If you want to see if there is somebody sitting at the console, you'll
>have to find a way to monitor keyboard and mouse usage.

    Which is a useless idea.  The "console", to me, is my Windows box sitting
on top of my headless Linux box.  It is housekeeping, people, it needs to
happen, deal with it.  :/

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