Seems to me that cron wasn't enabled by default. You had to ask for it to be set up either at install time or in LinuxConf. If at is a part of the same package, then probably all you need to do is tell cron (crond?) to start at startup. Tony McGee wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, the little plastic letters were pressed in this order: > > > > As I was saying before I got sidetracked, I'd use `at` for one-time > > appointments, but unfortunately, my Linux-Mandrake 7.0 doesn't seem to > > have it. Did I just overlook it, or it not available? > > > > > > -Matt Stegman > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > It has been in every distribution I've used since 1997 and it's in MDK7.1 so > it's pretty likely it was in 7.0 also. Might be an oversight or a strange bug > in the install process. I've had packages that I was pretty sure I checked in > the install mysteriously not be installed with no trace of failures in the > install log either. Haven't complained to anyone though as I wasn't absolutely > sure that it wasn't my bad memory :-) > > Tony > > (btw, anyone have any glitches installing the lsof and lslk packages from the > install process when doing 'select individual packages'?) -- (c) Charles Hixson -- Addition of advertisements or hyperlinks to products specifically prohibited
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