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 rulesdujour - but none of these appear to have run in
> the last month. 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"
> 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?
>
I just add the tasks to s specific script in the appropriate account and insure
the
script is executable. It all works fine with fcron.
Bob
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