Re: [gentoo-user] Daily dumb question... chron.

2005-07-19 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
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

[gentoo-user] Daily dumb question... chron.

2005-07-18 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Daily dumb question... chron.

2005-07-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
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.cron and

RE: [gentoo-user] Daily dumb question... chron.

2005-07-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
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

RE: [gentoo-user] Daily dumb question... chron.

2005-07-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
# 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 to

Re: [gentoo-user] Daily dumb question... chron.

2005-07-18 Thread Bob Sanders
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.cron and