[olug] Unix Tip: GOOD TIME FOR CRON

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			Unix Tip 2174 - December 14, 2002

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GOOD TIME FOR CRON

At a US government site, most of 
the maintenance cron jobs ran at 
noon, because testing showed that 
to be the least used time in any 24-hour 
weekday.  Some users were around at all 
hours of the night, but everyone went to 
lunch!

Tibor Pollerman




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