Re: how to set up

yes, anacron sounds like the one i want! thanks, and as a side note, at first
this sounds complicated to someone who hasnt seen a command propmt before, but
it is sooooo much easier than downloading ONE package at a time, (slowly),
rebooting, waiting 10 minutes for the system to come up, and repeating that
process 5-6 times, weekly! you know what i'm talking about. what a waste of
time that was.
m

On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 09:55:17AM -0700, Greg Kurtzer wrote:
> Sorry for the late responce...
> 
> GRAB can run automatically via cron and anacron. The easiest way to get GRAB
> to run automatically is to run 'grab --mkcron'. This will tell GRAB to write a
> cron script for you and depending on how often you want GRAB to run, it will
> write it in different locations (i.e. /etc/cron.[daily|weekly|monthly]/).
> 
> GRAB used to have a daemon option that will fork GRAB, and run it in the
> background and come to life at the defined time, but I don't think that anyone
> ever used it. Why would you when cron is already running and managing
> scheduled processes across the OS?
> 
> Because your system is not always running cron may miss the scheduled time,
> which is why there is also anacron. Anacron is similar to cron, but looks to
> see if the process has run within the time stated, and if not, runs it.
> Anacron also looks in the /etc/cron.* directories as does cron. Do a 'man 
> anacron' for more info.
> 
> Greg
> 
> On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 01:20:24PM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> > hello,
> > this is a very basic question, but hopefully you can help:
> > how do i set up grab to run automatically? in cron? my computer is on at
> > ramdon times and not everyday, so if i tell it to update the system on
> > tuesdays at 9pm, the system may not beupdated for quite a while. then choosing
> > to update everytime i boot up may be uncessasary. i'm sure the answer is
> > very basic! please help
> > m
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