Bug 197394 - Cron needs to become more intelligent - not run certain jobs on batteries
Summary: Cron needs to become more intelligent - not run certain jobs on batteries
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 190268
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: vixie-cron
Version: 5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Marcela Mašláňová
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-06-30 19:59 UTC by David Anderson
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-07-11 15:29:13 UTC
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Description David Anderson 2006-06-30 19:59:00 UTC
Cron is badly behind the capabilities of the Win XP task scheduler in some 
areas.

If the prelink monster runs when I am on batteries, then it reduces my battery 
time by about 25%. Seriously.

Hence I do not want prelink to run if on batteries. I could file this as a bug 
against prelink, but I think that cron should have this ability.

It needs to associate flags with jobs, which then decide whether execution 
should go ahead. One flag would be "do not run if on batteries". When the time 
comes to run the job, cron would then detect that we're on batteries (via 
HAL?) and refuse to run the job.

This message looks relevant too, as it suggests a wholesale replacement of 
vixie-cron with a particular alternative:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-June/msg00583.html

Comment 1 Marcela Mašláňová 2007-07-11 15:29:13 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 190268 ***


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