Well, in the (distant) past, I used to occasionally use cron to create a su account with root priveleges in the middle of the night, and then to kill it again 5 minutes later. That wasn't on my own system, though... :) Oh, I suppose you're going to tell me that's not what you're looking for, huh?
Point is, you can use it for anything that needs automating, or that you can script, as I understand things. I'm not totally certain about current cron versions, but in "the old days", the reason cron could create a superuser account was because cron runs (or ran) as root. That kinda removes restrictions on what you can do with it. Script away, whatever you like. Then cron it, take a nap, and let linux burn the midnight oil... Mac. James R. Lunsford wrote: > > What are some of the things that you are using cron to do? I used > to use a similar DOS based program, same name, eons ago when I ran > a BBS. In the middle of the night I had it start up and run > maintenence for the online games, delete old local e-mail > messages, get/sort/unpack FidoNet mail for the BBS, and assorted > other things. > > I'm just wondering, as a Linux/Debian newbie some of the things > that cron can do on my system. I'm drawing a blank right now so > maybe if I hear from some others how, and what they use cron it'll > spark something. > -- > James R. Lunsford > Email - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Home Page - http://www.comports.com/jrl007 > ICQ - 2114258 > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null