From: sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) Subject: Re: Would it be safe to let only reboot do syncs? Date: 4 Apr 1993 17:47:17 GMT
In article <1993Apr4.051008.13726@leland.Stanford.EDU>, yseeley@leland.Stanford.EDU (Yonik Christopher Seeley) writes:
Yonik> For all those Newbies out there (like myself) wondering if you are
Yonik> doing something dangerous by not putting in '/etc/update&' in
Yonik> /etc/rc, you should not have to do this. I did a grep for
Yonik> 'update' on /etc/rc* and came up empty. Update gets started somewhere
Yonik> else on my system (SLS 1.0), although I do not know where. If you
Yonik> are wondering if you have it, just type 'ps -aux' and check if
Yonik> /etc/update is in the process list. If it is not, then you had
Yonik> better put it in /etc/rc.
Good point. Some of the newer versions of /etc/init sync
automatically, making /etc/update redundant. As long as your system
is performing occassional automatic disk IO (do you ever notice the
disk light coming on even while the machine is idle), you're OK - you
either have an updating init or update itself. If you don't, you need
/etc/update & in your /etc/rc.
Cheers,
Stephen.