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* Jan Martin Mathiassen <hates_software@xxxxxxxx.xx> [2005-05-02 13:18 +0200]:
> It gets better. It will, while the machines are having problems
> downloading the updates, decide to turn OFF this autoupdate mechanism.
> Apparently at random, too.
Try McAfee's virus scanning suite with its automatic update ability. It
seems (or seemed, the last time I had to deal with it, which was a few
years ago) to work like at(1) rather than cron(8). You tell it when you
want it to run (every weekday at, say, 7 pm, randomized within an hour
(actually a nice feature to keep the update server from getting hammered))
and it then tells you when it will run next. If it misses that
appointment (computer off, programs crash, whatever), it will never run
again, because it will continue waiting for that date to roll around.
"I'm going to run on April 27th, 2005. What? It's now May 2nd, 2005?
Too bad. I'm going to wait for April 27th, 2005 to come around again."
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