[Tech] Partimus & Raspberry Pi 3 Model Bs

[Tai Kedzierski]

Github repositories are independent of the distribution repositories.

So long as the PC is on the cron job will run - no users need to be
actively logged in

// Sent from a mobile device. Brevity and typos may transpire

On 28 Sep 2016 19:02, "Christian Einfeldt" <einfeldt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Tai, thanks for your reply.  Bottom posting...
>
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 6:26 AM, Tai Kedzierski <dch.tai at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Alternatively you can add a cron to pull a github repo regularly.
>>
> Thanks for this info, but I am confused.  Github repo?  Not the Ubuntu
> repositories?
>
>> It would run a script to check if ipdate was needed and if so would run
>> it.
>>
>> In this way you can also push config changes and add partimus-specific
>> tools as needed. It can also double as an initial-setup script.
>>
>> I could put something together for this if interested.
>>
> Thanks for offering to teach me how to write a cron job to run updates.
> It sounds very useful.  Here's a question:  this cron job needs to run even
> if the SU is not logged in.  These machines sit in low income shelters, and
> most of the time, they are either at the login screen, or they are logged
> into a temporary guest session.  Will the cron job ru regardless of who is
> logged in?  Thanks!
>
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