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  • From: Jeffrey Schmidt <jschmidt AT fnal.gov>
  • To: Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] System crontab
  • Date: 30 Dec 2002 13:21:54 -0600

On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 00:57, Andrew wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 12:15:24AM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> > I am working on a spell for a program which will need a script run daily.
> > On
> > Mandrake I'd put it in /etc/cron.daily/. In Source Mage, I attempted to
> > cast
> > hc-cron and fcron. fcron failed, and hc-cron succeeded even though mutt
> > failed. hc-cron as cast is a bare bones program. How do I run a script
> > daily,
> > when I can't be sure what kind of cron daemon a system has?
> >
> has there been a bug filed for fcron? i cant remember a time when it cast.
> there is also a /etc/crontab file that hc-cron uses. It has some extra
> features for designating a user to the job as.
no bug filed, but I *have* noticed this. I just haven't had a chance to
try and fix it.

Jeff
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