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 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?
Possibly not. ... depends on what you have installed. /etc/cron.daily has some useful stuff, notably slocate.cron.
