Billy- Try # update-rc.d cron defaults
I had to add the links for cron after installing it to have it start at boot time for run levels 2-5. You should probably read about the boot process information in # info debian under 'Customizing' question 11.3 and 11.4 There is a good description of what happens at boot time and how to change it. If cron is running it is supposed to process the file in /etc/crontab and on my system this is what starts the daily/weekly/monthly jobs. Good luck, -Bernt. On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Chow Chi-Ming wrote: > Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 16:31:09 +0800 > From: Chow Chi-Ming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: cron doesn't start at boot up? > > Hi, > > System: Debian 1.2 > Package: cron_3.0pl1-36.1 > > It seems that cron is not started by postinst. Is this delibrate? > How do the /etc/cron.{daily,weekly,monthly} work? > > Thanks. > > -- > Billy C.-M. Chow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Department of Systems Engineering > The Chinese University of Hong Kong -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]