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 4.43) id 1DugRa-0005Zg-3Q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 00:58:46 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6J0v06f000282; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 00:57:00 GMT Received: from mail21.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail21.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.23]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6J0pXXf032189 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 00:51:34 GMT Received: (qmail 20238 invoked from network); 19 Jul 2005 00:52:26 -0000 Received: from dsl027-182-150.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO chi.speakeasy.net) (rmsand@[216.27.182.150]) (envelope-sender ) by mail21.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 19 Jul 2005 00:52:26 -0000 Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:52:26 -0700 From: Bob Sanders To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Daily dumb question... chron. Message-ID: <20050718175226.4896a802@chi.speakeasy.net> In-Reply-To: <42DB9B45.50503@shic.co.uk> References: <42DB9B45.50503@shic.co.uk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.4a (GTK+ 1.2.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ac46d792-dafb-41a3-996e-d631621f933b X-Archives-Hash: 71419c3176ce468ac8c50eaf8b64d489 On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:06:29 +0100 "Steve [Gentoo]" 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 - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list