Re: [gentoo-user] Daily dumb question... chron.

[Bob Sanders <rmsand@concentric.net>]

On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:06:29 +0100
"Steve [Gentoo]" <gentoo_steve@shic.co.uk> wrote:

ne.
> 
> I've noticed the directories /etc/cron.daily; /etc/cron.hourly; 
> /etc/cron.monthly etc. and therein a bunch of non-user-specific 
> administration tasks... For example, in ./etc/cron.daily I've 
> logrotate.cron and rulesdujour - but none of these appear to have run in 
> the last month.  Are thse system tasks supposed to be fired 
> automatically by fcron? 

Yes.  In the ebuild it says -

        einfo "To activate /etc/cron.{hourly|daily|weekly|montly} please run: "
        einfo "crontab /etc/crontab"

>  What would be the easiest way to get all my 
> periodic system administration tasks defined in these directories to be 
> fired automatically?  Did I make a sensible choice with fcron?
> 

I just add the tasks to s specific script in the appropriate account and insure the
script is executable.  It all works fine with fcron.

Bob
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