Re: Once again about anacron cron cron.daily

2013-10-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Harry Putnam wrote: > Bob Proulx writes: > > commenting upon. Because while true for non-root for root if it is > > root there isn't any user test. For the root user it is purely a > > Alright... at last. I've been laying for a chance to pedantic right > back at you... :-) > > check to see if

Re: Once again about anacron cron cron.daily

2013-10-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Bob Proulx writes: > The particular part I was pedantically talking about was your comment > that said "checks that it is executable", yes, all good, and then you > go on to say "*and* sees to it that this user has permission". It was > that last part, the second part of the _and_ that I was ped

Re: Once again about anacron cron cron.daily

2013-10-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Harry Putnam wrote: > Bob Proulx writes: > > Harry Putnam wrote: > >> I'm still not getting the whole picture of what is supposed to happen > >> on a machine with both anacron and cron installed. > > > > And you might be tired of having me respond about it. :-) > > Not on your life! I have a cer

Re: Once again about anacron cron cron.daily

2013-10-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Bob Proulx writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: >> I'm still not getting the whole picture of what is supposed to happen >> on a machine with both anacron and cron installed. > > And you might be tired of having me respond about it. :-) Not on your life! I have a certain fondness for descriptive and

Re: Once again about anacron cron cron.daily

2013-10-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm still not getting the whole picture of what is supposed to happen > on a machine with both anacron and cron installed. And you might be tired of having me respond about it. :-) > I have lines like the one below in /etc/crontab > > [...] test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || (

Once again about anacron cron cron.daily

2013-10-21 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm still not getting the whole picture of what is supposed to happen on a machine with both anacron and cron installed. I understand the reasoning for machines that are not up all the time, where anacron picks up the slack for cron jobs that came up with the machine down. I get that. But in my

Re: Anacron/Cron

1997-07-15 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > Now that anacron is taking over the daily, weekly and monthly > cron jobs, can I safely remove cron, or is it required for other > system functions? I wouldn't particuarly recomend removing cron. Most of t

Anacron/Cron

1997-07-14 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
I have finally installed anacron. Since my machine doesn't run 24 hours a day, no cron scripts have ever run, so my log files are getting out of hand. The package description for anacron says "It's also a good replacement for cron on systems, that don't run continuously 24 hours a day b