"James R. Lunsford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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. > --
why don't you have a look at what your Debian system does for you in the night? It's all in /etc/cron.daily, cron.weekly and cron.monthly. It may give you an idea of what is needed to maintain your Linux system Pf -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx | http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.1 #1 Sun Feb 14 21:32:41 CET 1999 i586 unknown
