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 1DupXA-0003za-NI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 10:41:09 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6JAdHBC002267; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 10:39:17 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 j6JAZmJV006969 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 10:35:48 GMT Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.shic.lan (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4533E39EEE for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 11:36:32 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <42DCD7BA.1000403@shic.co.uk> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 11:36:42 +0100 From: "Steve [Gentoo]" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Windows/20050711) 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: Re: [gentoo-user] Daily dumb question... chron. References: <42DB9B45.50503@shic.co.uk> <20050718175226.4896a802@chi.speakeasy.net> In-Reply-To: <20050718175226.4896a802@chi.speakeasy.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 96f9d3f0-6f98-49b8-82f1-17835ee23114 X-Archives-Hash: 346dc77cc5f08b26f91cc54d19179b43 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list