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On Saturday 17 April 2010 14:08:22 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Saturday 17 April 2010 14:59:09 Lie Ryan wrote: |
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> > On 04/17/10 18:47, Mick wrote: |
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> > > On Friday 16 April 2010 22:25:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > >> On Friday 16 April 2010 20:29:27 Dale wrote: |
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> > > |
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> > > Blimey! That sounds like horribly_broken! |
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> > > |
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> > > Which cron do you recommend for a desktop? |
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> > One question, do you actually need cron for desktop? I installed vixie |
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> > because the installation manual says to, but never need to write any |
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> > cron rule for anything and I don't think there any program I uses |
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> > installs a cron rule. So why bother with cron? |
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> |
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> A default install will configure cron to run |
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> |
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> mkwhatis |
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> slocate |
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> logrotate |
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> updatepciids |
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> updateusbids |
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> |
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> These are all very useful and your machine is somewhat crippled without |
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> them. |
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> |
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Hmm... mine has: |
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ls -la /etc/cron.daily/ |
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total 10 |
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drwxr-x--- 2 root root 7 Mar 14 19:11 . |
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drwxr-xr-x 74 root root 160 Apr 17 14:58 .. |
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 21 01:33 .keep |
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 28 15:13 .keep_sys-process_cronbase-0 |
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 52 Feb 28 15:15 logrotate.cron |
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 115 Mar 14 19:11 makewhatis |
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 152 Feb 28 15:15 slocate |
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but not updatepciids and updateusbids. Grant you I don't need them daily, but |
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last time I checked I had to update these myself. Should they have been added |
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automatically in my /etc/cron.daily/* ? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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