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From: Dave Nebinger <dnebinger@××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: gentoo_steve@×××××××.uk
Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Daily dumb question... chron.
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:03:03
Message-Id: 004401c58b98$58ef1300$5f01010a@jnetlab.lcl
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Daily dumb question... chron. by "Steve [Gentoo]"
1 > Are thse system tasks supposed to be fired
2 > automatically by fcron?
3
4 You missed the message that flew by when emerging fcron...
5
6 Fcron includes the /etc/cron.* directories but does not install cron jobs
7 for them automatically, and it does not support /etc/crontab (as other crons
8 do).
9
10 You need to manually add them to the root crontab. Easiest way would be to:
11
12 1. su - (or login as root).
13 2. crontab -l root > root.crontab (to get any existing cron entries for
14 root).
15 3. vi root.crontab and add the following:
16
17 # Clean the lastrun directories...
18 0 * * * * rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly
19 1 3 * * * rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily
20 15 4 * * 6 rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.weekly
21 30 5 1 * * rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.monthly
22
23 # Now do the command to determine what tasks need to be executed
24 # Only generate emails on errors...
25 !nolog(true)
26 */10 * * * * /usr/bin/test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons &&
27 /usr/sbin/run-crons
28
29 4. crontab root.crontab (to make the changes take effect)
30
31 This will install the appropriate cron jobs to have the /etc/cron.* scripts
32 run.
33
34 Dave
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