Thank you, @rac8006! I hadn’t expected the cron.d directory to contain more files like crontab
I’ll have a go with a changed rhythm for the logrotation like
55 2 * * * root [ -f /etc/init.d/atop ] && /etc/init.d/atop rotate
I won’t mind if the cloud wakes up once a day (or night) when there are a lot of routine jobs planned anyway. 1/3 of wake-ups seem okay to me. Let’s wait for tonight’s sleeptime.
And I had an idea about the 7-second-problem, when I read your explanation about the cloud accessing files that aren’t in it’s cache - wouldn’t it be possible to mount a USB stick for these system directories? I not too deep into Linux yet, so I don’t know if it’s totally dumb. But if I copied e.g. the “bin”-directory to the stick an remount it from there, wouldn’t this work as well? Or would this be too dangerous because there might be outdated system files on the HDD from which the system boots after a restart? Just an idea, maybe I’ll rather try this on a Raspberry first, they are easier to restore
Martin