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On Saturday 17 April 2010 17:10:14 Mick wrote: |
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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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> > > > 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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> > |
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> > them. |
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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, |
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> but last time I checked I had to update these myself. Should they have |
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> been added automatically in my /etc/cron.daily/* ? |
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They go in cron.monthly, but no matter. |
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Do you have these packages installed: |
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nazgul ~ # equery belongs /etc/cron.monthly/update-pciids |
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* Searching for /etc/cron.monthly/update-pciids ... |
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sys-apps/pciutils-3.1.7 (/etc/cron.monthly/update-pciids) |
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nazgul ~ # equery belongs /etc/cron.monthly/update-usbids |
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* Searching for /etc/cron.monthly/update-usbids ... |
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sys-apps/usbutils-0.87 (/etc/cron.monthly/update-usbids) |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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