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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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> > 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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A default install will configure cron to run |
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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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These are all very useful and your machine is somewhat crippled without them. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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