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From: "Steve [Gentoo]" <gentoo_steve@shic.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Daily dumb question... chron.
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 11:36:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42DCD7BA.1000403@shic.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050718175226.4896a802@chi.speakeasy.net>

Bob Sanders wrote:

>>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"
>  
>
I hadn't seen that message - but then again, when I installed fcron the 
/etc/cron.* stuff wasn't especially important to me... so I might easily 
have ignored it at the time.  It's a pity this sort of "essential" 
warning isn't available for all packages as some kind of Gentoo 
knowledge base - I guess I could read the ebuild files - but it would be 
far more convenient to have tips/tricks/gotchas available annotated with 
each package - say on http://packages.gentoo.org/...  Hmmm.

In any case, thanks - "crontab /etc/crontab" seems the perfect resolution.

Steve

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      reply	other threads:[~2005-07-19 10:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-18 12:06 [gentoo-user] Daily dumb question... chron Steve [Gentoo]
2005-07-18 12:25 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2005-07-18 12:58 ` Dave Nebinger
2005-07-18 13:09   ` Dave Nebinger
2005-07-19  0:52 ` Bob Sanders
2005-07-19 10:36   ` Steve [Gentoo] [this message]

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