Bob Sanders wrote:
Are thse system tasks supposed to be fired automatically by fcron?
Yes. In the ebuild it says -
einfo "To activate /etc/cron.{hourly|daily|weekly|montly} please run: "
einfo "crontab /etc/crontab"
I hadn't seen that message - but then again, when I inst
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:06:29 +0100
"Steve [Gentoo]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ne.
>
> I've noticed the directories /etc/cron.daily; /etc/cron.hourly;
> /etc/cron.monthly etc. and therein a bunch of non-user-specific
> administration tasks... For example, in ./etc/cron.daily I've
> logrotate.c
>
> # Now do the command to determine what tasks need to be executed
> # Only generate emails on errors...
> !nolog(true)
Oops, this nolog bit comes from my crontab and is not normally put in. I
added it because I hated getting emails for regular runs. If you choose to
include it, add "!reset"
> 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 t
Hi,
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:06:29 +0100
"Steve [Gentoo]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've noticed the directories /etc/cron.daily; /etc/cron.hourly;
> /etc/cron.monthly etc. and therein a bunch of non-user-specific
> administration tasks... For example, in ./etc/cron.daily I've
> logrotate.cro
Because I need my Gentoo server to perform periodic tasks on my behalf I
new I needed some implementation of "cron" - and after a brief
investigation I settled on fcron as I liked the idea that I could give
flexible scheduling in order to allow the OS to delay processing in the
event of heavy s
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