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From: Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@×××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cron fetchnews
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 07:22:54
Message-Id: 1143616524.29453.12.camel@neuromancer.home.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] cron fetchnews by THUFIR HAWAT
1 On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 22:09 +0100, THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
2 > I've read abit about cron, then I was thinking about doing it myself,
3 > when I came across this very neat file :)
4 >
5 > Just to confirm, please, all I do is uncomment line 10 and every hour
6 > fetchnews will run as a daemon? Neat-o!
7
8 > thufir@localhost ~ $ cat -n /etc/cron.hourly/fetchnews
9 > 10 #/usr/sbin/fetchnews
10 > thufir@localhost ~ $ date
11 > Tue Mar 28 22:07:10 IST 2006
12
13 Yes.. But why not try it and find out?
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