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 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. > > > > Hmm... mine has: > > > > ls -la /etc/cron.daily/ > > total 10 > > drwxr-x--- 2 root root 7 Mar 14 19:11 . > > drwxr-xr-x 74 root root 160 Apr 17 14:58 .. > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 21 01:33 .keep > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 28 15:13 .keep_sys-process_cronbase-0 > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 52 Feb 28 15:15 logrotate.cron > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 115 Mar 14 19:11 makewhatis > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 152 Feb 28 15:15 slocate > > > > but not updatepciids and updateusbids. Grant you I don't need them > > daily, but last time I checked I had to update these myself. Should they > > have been added automatically in my /etc/cron.daily/* ? > > They go in cron.monthly, but no matter. > > 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 /etc/cron.monthly/update-usbids > * Searching for /etc/cron.monthly/update-usbids ... > sys-apps/usbutils-0.87 (/etc/cron.monthly/update-usbids)
Hmm ... Nill returns. :-( I have however already installed both pciutils and usbutils. Are they meant to make entries in cron.daily when installed? -- Regards, Mick
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