[gentoo-user] Re: vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-17 Thread Lie Ryan
On 04/17/10 18:47, Mick wrote: On Friday 16 April 2010 22:25:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 16 April 2010 20:29:27 Dale wrote: Blimey! That sounds like horribly_broken! Which cron do you recommend for a desktop? One question, do you actually need cron for desktop? I installed vixie

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 17 April 2010 14:59:09 Lie Ryan wrote: On 04/17/10 18:47, Mick wrote: On Friday 16 April 2010 22:25:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 16 April 2010 20:29:27 Dale wrote: Blimey! That sounds like horribly_broken! Which cron do you recommend for a desktop? One question, do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-17 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:59:09 +1000 Lie Ryan wrote: On 04/17/10 18:47, Mick wrote: On Friday 16 April 2010 22:25:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 16 April 2010 20:29:27 Dale wrote: Blimey! That sounds like horribly_broken! Which cron do you recommend for a desktop? One

[gentoo-user] Re: vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-17 Thread Lie Ryan
On 04/17/10 23:08, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 17 April 2010 14:59:09 Lie Ryan wrote: On 04/17/10 18:47, Mick wrote: On Friday 16 April 2010 22:25:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 16 April 2010 20:29:27 Dale wrote: Blimey! That sounds like horribly_broken! Which cron do you recommend

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-17 Thread Mick
On Saturday 17 April 2010 14:08:22 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 17 April 2010 14:59:09 Lie Ryan wrote: On 04/17/10 18:47, Mick wrote: On Friday 16 April 2010 22:25:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 16 April 2010 20:29:27 Dale wrote: Blimey! That sounds like horribly_broken!

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 17 April 2010 17:10:14 Mick wrote: On Saturday 17 April 2010 14:08:22 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 17 April 2010 14:59:09 Lie Ryan wrote: On 04/17/10 18:47, Mick wrote: On Friday 16 April 2010 22:25:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 16 April 2010 20:29:27 Dale wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-17 Thread Mick
On Saturday 17 April 2010 16:39:19 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 17 April 2010 17:10:14 Mick wrote: On Saturday 17 April 2010 14:08:22 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 17 April 2010 14:59:09 Lie Ryan wrote: On 04/17/10 18:47, Mick wrote: On Friday 16 April 2010 22:25:47 Alan

[gentoo-user] Re: vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-17 Thread walt
On 04/17/2010 11:12 AM, Mick wrote: I have however already installed both pciutils and usbutils. Are they meant to make entries in cron.daily when installed? I just discovered the network-cron useflag, thanks :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 17 April 2010 20:12:42 Mick wrote: Do you have these packages installed: nazgul ~ # equery belongs /etc/cron.monthly/update-pciids * Searching for /etc/cron.monthly/update-pciids ... sys-apps/pciutils-3.1.7 (/etc/cron.monthly/update-pciids) nazgul ~ # equery belongs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-17 Thread Mick
On Saturday 17 April 2010 21:55:52 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 17 April 2010 20:12:42 Mick wrote: Do you have these packages installed: nazgul ~ # equery belongs /etc/cron.monthly/update-pciids * Searching for /etc/cron.monthly/update-pciids ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-17 Thread Mick
On Saturday 17 April 2010 23:01:19 you wrote: On Saturday 17 April 2010 21:55:52 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 17 April 2010 20:12:42 Mick wrote: Do you have these packages installed: nazgul ~ # equery belongs /etc/cron.monthly/update-pciids * Searching for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-17 Thread David W Noon
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 23:10:01 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vixie-cron keeps stopping: On Saturday 17 April 2010 20:12:42 Mick wrote: [snip] Are they meant to make entries in cron.daily when installed? Not at all. They are meant to install crontabs in cron.monthly

[gentoo-user] Re: vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-16 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Thursday 15 April 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 15 April 2010 02:58:15 Matt Harrison wrote: I apologise if this has come twice, it didn't appear to post correctly first time, not even on the archives. Its been happening for a while but I haven't got round to find out why,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-16 Thread Stroller
On 16 Apr 2010, at 18:58, Francesco Talamona wrote: On Thursday 15 April 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... You probably don't want to hear this, but: vixie-cron is problematic in the extreme. I have endless hassle with it's weird behaviours. Use a different cron daemon. Your advice is vague

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vixie-cron keeps stopping

2010-04-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 16 April 2010 19:58:23 Francesco Talamona wrote: On Thursday 15 April 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 15 April 2010 02:58:15 Matt Harrison wrote: I apologise if this has come twice, it didn't appear to post correctly first time, not even on the archives. Its been