[vox] my mother has seen the light

[Ken Bloom]

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On 2003.11.25 12:15, Robert G. Scofield wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 November 2003 07:01, Katie wrote:
> >  She's ready to try linux, but she's a little
> > leary.  I want to make it as easy as possible on her so she doesn't
> feel
> > like she has to go back to Windows.
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> I forgot to mention one thing.  I think people who move to Linux from
> Windows,
> and who aren't leaving their computers on 24 hours a day need to =20
> learn
> to
> edit (or otherwise deal with) /etc/crontab.  If they don't then they
> may end
> up with the mystery of losing some disk space.
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> My editing on this new system has not yet capped /var/log/messages as
> it did
> on Mandrake.  If I'm not mistaken, I can just delete "messages" when =20
> I
> want.
> But the ordinary computer user should be aware of this disk space
> issue.

Are you saying you want to edit crontab to run logrotate at some time =20
when the computer is on? Mandrake installs anacron by default, and =20
anacron will make-up on startup if it missed the cron time.

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