Run prelink and other stuff not in cron but when screensaver is active.

P at draigBrady.com P at draigBrady.com
Thu Oct 30 09:58:23 UTC 2003


Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 08:26:55PM +0100, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote:
> 
>>I sometime get a bit frustrated that a cron job starts while I'm 
>>working. Wouldn't it be nicer that this stuff would run when I'm not 
>>doing any work. I.e. when the screensaver is active. Maybe as a minor 
>>enhancement when the screensaver is active and there is not a process 
>>asking for cpu power /disk access. Sometimes I'm running compiling jobs 
>>which take quite a while.
> 
> 
> Several things.
> 
> 1. anacron(8)
> 2. batch(1)
> 3. nice(1) and renice(8)
> 4. xscreensaver-command(1)
> 
> With some combination of these, it is not too difficult to roll
> a (sub-optimal) solution using nothing more than scripting.

true.
This reminds me, that it's seriously annoying
that xscreensaver runs for vnc sessions. Seems
like an easy fix.

Pádraig.





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