From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FOV14-0007cE-Ar for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 07:22:54 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2T7LgG0027190; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 07:21:42 GMT Received: from neuromancer.home.net ([202.146.86.87]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2T7GQiA006074 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 07:16:28 GMT Received: from neuromancer.home.net (neuromancer.home.net [127.0.0.1]) by neuromancer.home.net (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2T7FOAu000788 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:15:24 +0800 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cron fetchnews From: Ow Mun Heng To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:15:23 +0800 Message-Id: <1143616524.29453.12.camel@neuromancer.home.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 79a2a00b-469c-431d-b887-a9b035676c25 X-Archives-Hash: 5c31c00ef7e42a6a03897708f814efe5 On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 22:09 +0100, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > I've read abit about cron, then I was thinking about doing it myself, > when I came across this very neat file :) > > Just to confirm, please, all I do is uncomment line 10 and every hour > fetchnews will run as a daemon? Neat-o! > thufir@localhost ~ $ cat -n /etc/cron.hourly/fetchnews > 10 #/usr/sbin/fetchnews > thufir@localhost ~ $ date > Tue Mar 28 22:07:10 IST 2006 Yes.. But why not try it and find out? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 15:15:22 up 7:53, 4 users, load average: 1.23, 0.70, 0.72 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list