On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Russell Gadd wrote:
> I have set up a couple of Debian systems which will be used occasionally -
> i.e. say on average twice a week, each time for about half an hour. At other
> times the PC will be switched off.
Why not take them out of cron and just put them in the init.d scripts? 
G.
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