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 you actually need cron for desktop? I installed vixie
> because the installation manual says to, but never need to write any
> cron rule for anything and I don't think there any program I uses
> installs a cron rule. So why bother with cron?

A default install will configure cron to run

mkwhatis
slocate
logrotate
updatepciids
updateusbids

These are all very useful and your machine is somewhat crippled without them.

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