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 1DuUSc-0007D5-Us for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:11:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6IC9FoU024909; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:09:15 GMT Received: from mail.shic.lan (adsl.195-248-105-109.dial.hot.broadband.adsl.broadbandonly.co.uk [195.248.105.109]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6IC5i5r006712 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:05:44 GMT Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.shic.lan (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3143D71733 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:06:19 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <42DB9B45.50503@shic.co.uk> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:06:29 +0100 From: "Steve [Gentoo]" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Daily dumb question... chron. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 32139f9d-acd9-438b-aff6-e736f2757154 X-Archives-Hash: a65b975482378c091b01cf8cebd779c1 Because I need my Gentoo server to perform periodic tasks on my behalf I new I needed some implementation of "cron" - and after a brief investigation I settled on fcron as I liked the idea that I could give flexible scheduling in order to allow the OS to delay processing in the event of heavy system load. I've written a couple of my own administration tasks (to be run as my own non-root user) and these work fine. 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? 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? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list