Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vixie-cron keeps stopping

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Saturday 17 April 2010 17:10:14 Mick wrote:
> On Saturday 17 April 2010 14:08:22 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Saturday 17 April 2010 14:59:09 Lie Ryan wrote:
> > > On 04/17/10 18:47, Mick wrote:
> > > > On Friday 16 April 2010 22:25:47 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > >> On Friday 16 April 2010 20:29:27 Dale wrote:
> > > > Blimey!  That sounds like horribly_broken!
> > > > 
> > > > Which cron do you recommend for a desktop?
> > > 
> > > One question, do you actually need cron for desktop? I installed vixie
> > > because the installation manual says to, but never need to write any
> > > cron rule for anything and I don't think there any program I uses
> > > installs a cron rule. So why bother with cron?
> > 
> > A default install will configure cron to run
> > 
> > mkwhatis
> > slocate
> > logrotate
> > updatepciids
> > updateusbids
> > 
> > These are all very useful and your machine is somewhat crippled without
> > 
> >  them.
> 
> Hmm... mine has:
> 
>  ls -la /etc/cron.daily/
> total 10
> drwxr-x---  2 root root   7 Mar 14 19:11 .
> drwxr-xr-x 74 root root 160 Apr 17 14:58 ..
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   0 Jan 21 01:33 .keep
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   0 Feb 28 15:13 .keep_sys-process_cronbase-0
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  52 Feb 28 15:15 logrotate.cron
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 115 Mar 14 19:11 makewhatis
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 152 Feb 28 15:15 slocate
> 
> but not updatepciids and updateusbids.  Grant you I don't need them daily,
> but last time I checked I had to update these myself.  Should they have
> been added automatically in my /etc/cron.daily/*  ?

They go in cron.monthly, but no matter.

Do you have these packages installed:

nazgul ~ # equery belongs /etc/cron.monthly/update-pciids
 * Searching for /etc/cron.monthly/update-pciids ... 
sys-apps/pciutils-3.1.7 (/etc/cron.monthly/update-pciids)
nazgul ~ # equery belongs /etc/cron.monthly/update-usbids 
 * Searching for /etc/cron.monthly/update-usbids ... 
sys-apps/usbutils-0.87 (/etc/cron.monthly/update-usbids)


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