crontab

[Patrick Dupre]

On Sat, 9 Oct 2010, Tom Horsley wrote:

> 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).
OK
But their is not anymore cron.daily by default ?
Should it run by crontab ?

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