Leaving a Computer Running ?

[Loren M. Lang]

On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 12:00:01PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Saturday,  5 February 2005 at 17:45:25 -0500, Peterhin wrote:
> >
> > Is it better to leave a computer (a stand alone) running continuously or
> > is it OK to shut it down at the end of the day.?
> > I remember years ago someone mentioned that it is better for the
> > circuitry to leave it running.
> > Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated
> 
> I won't jump in on the bikeshed about the effects on the electronics.
> A thing that nobody has mentioned so far is that by default, the
> system performs a number of functions (via cron) in the middle of the
> night.  If you turn it off, you should check /etc/crontab and decide
> when to perform the nightly maintenance.

sysutils/anacron is a program that runs on boot and determines what cron
jobs would of been run while the system wasn't running then starts them.

> 
> Greg
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