-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 07 January 2004 18:18, David Gethings wrote: > On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 17:02, Rob2 wrote: > > I have vixiecron installed in my system. I have also created a root > > crontab. What is the purpose of the /etc/crontab? > > I don't remember cron doing anything until I made my root crontab. Is > > /etc/cron just a template? > > IIRC /etc/crontab is a system cron. It usually runs the hourly, daily, > weekly, etc cron jobs. > > I say IIRC as I am not running vcron. I'm running anacron. > > Cheers
but anacron need a "system cron" like vcron. Or do you start anacron manually? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE//IHFU3ez8gmVfJwRAuGxAJwOPOKkY5OA9HcukKeIfP3CR9TxnwCeK6qc SBcXGL59DW07uzA55OFw8Bc= =Ab08 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
