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 system load. I've written a couple of my own
administration tasks (to be run as my own non-root user) and these work
fine.
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.cron and rulesdujour - but none of these appear to have run in
the last month. Are thse system tasks supposed to be fired
automatically by fcron? What would be the easiest way to get all my
periodic system administration tasks defined in these directories to be
fired automatically? Did I make a sensible choice with fcron?
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