> Are thse system tasks supposed to be fired > automatically by fcron?
You missed the message that flew by when emerging fcron... Fcron includes the /etc/cron.* directories but does not install cron jobs for them automatically, and it does not support /etc/crontab (as other crons do). You need to manually add them to the root crontab. Easiest way would be to: 1. su - (or login as root). 2. crontab -l root > root.crontab (to get any existing cron entries for root). 3. vi root.crontab and add the following: # Clean the lastrun directories... 0 * * * * rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly 1 3 * * * rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily 15 4 * * 6 rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.weekly 30 5 1 * * rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.monthly # Now do the command to determine what tasks need to be executed # Only generate emails on errors... !nolog(true) */10 * * * * /usr/bin/test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons 4. crontab root.crontab (to make the changes take effect) This will install the appropriate cron jobs to have the /etc/cron.* scripts run. Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
