crontab

Tom Horsley horsley1953 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 9 17:50:48 UTC 2010


On Sat, 9 Oct 2010 18:37:27 +0100 (BST)
Patrick Dupre wrote:

> Before (fedora 10) the default file /etc/crontab was not empty.
> On my new fedora13 it is just almost empty.
> So I guess that the cron files are never run and there is probably a
> tool to manage it.
> Could you guide me ?

Everything is run by anacron these days (and I have to go to lots
of trouble to disable it now). See /etc/anacrontab for the same
sort of stuff that used to be in crontab (which will now be run at
some randomly selected totally inconvenient time instead of on
a reliable schedule).


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