gpg: failed to create temporary file '/var/lib/lurker/.#lk0x5695a100.hantslug.org.uk.11992': Permission denied
gpg: keyblock resource '/var/lib/lurker/pubring.gpg': Permission denied
gpg: Signature made Fri Oct 19 01:01:30 2007 BST
gpg: using DSA key 11464336BB6D2FA0
gpg: Can't check signature: No public key
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 12:01:19AM +0100, Steve Kirk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just wondering how others deal with cron jobs on their laptops. E.g. the
> default jobs that most distros seem to drop into some kind of daily or
> weekly cron job to update things such as the slocate db.
>
> Inevitably the laptop is off when the scripts are scheduled to run, so
> do you run them manually? Set them to run in the background at boot
> time? Any other ideas?
anacron exists for just this purpose. It'll check at boot whether
any cron jobs should have run whilst powered off, and run them.
--
Benjamin A'Lee <bma@???>
http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." -
Albert Einstein
