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On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:06:29 +0100 |
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"Steve [Gentoo]" <gentoo_steve@×××××××.uk> wrote: |
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ne. |
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> I've noticed the directories /etc/cron.daily; /etc/cron.hourly; |
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> /etc/cron.monthly etc. and therein a bunch of non-user-specific |
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> administration tasks... For example, in ./etc/cron.daily I've |
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> logrotate.cron and rulesdujour - but none of these appear to have run in |
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> the last month. Are thse system tasks supposed to be fired |
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> automatically by fcron? |
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Yes. In the ebuild it says - |
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einfo "To activate /etc/cron.{hourly|daily|weekly|montly} please run: " |
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einfo "crontab /etc/crontab" |
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> What would be the easiest way to get all my |
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> periodic system administration tasks defined in these directories to be |
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> fired automatically? Did I make a sensible choice with fcron? |
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I just add the tasks to s specific script in the appropriate account and insure the |
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script is executable. It all works fine with fcron. |
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Bob |
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