Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: David Relson <relson@×××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vixie-cron keeps stopping
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:13:27
Message-Id: 20100417091304.77b456d5@osage.osagesoftware.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: vixie-cron keeps stopping by Lie Ryan
1 On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:59:09 +1000
2 Lie Ryan wrote:
3
4 > On 04/17/10 18:47, Mick wrote:
5 > > On Friday 16 April 2010 22:25:47 Alan McKinnon wrote:
6 > >> On Friday 16 April 2010 20:29:27 Dale wrote:
7 > >
8 > > Blimey! That sounds like horribly_broken!
9 > >
10 > > Which cron do you recommend for a desktop?
11 >
12 >
13 > One question, do you actually need cron for desktop? I installed vixie
14 > because the installation manual says to, but never need to write any
15 > cron rule for anything and I don't think there any program I uses
16 > installs a cron rule. So why bother with cron?
17
18 Possibly not. ... depends on what you have installed. /etc/cron.daily
19 has some useful stuff, notably slocate.cron.