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Re: cron



Hi,
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Aviram Jenik wrote:

> To continue the cron discussion thread, but from another angle:
> 
> under /etc there are a few directories called:
> cron.daily
> cron.hourly
> cron.monthly
> .
> .
> 
> and in it some scripts.
> 
> How does it work? How do I add/remove scripts? (simply remove the file?)
> When is it activated? (the "daily" for example? is it on midnight?)
> 

This stuff is a RedHat hack for dealing with RPMs that need to have cron
jobs.
Indeed to cancel or add a job just delete/add the file.

I believe the runtime is indeed midnight, i might be wrong.
> I only found it after I saw weird messages in my log, and then I saw it
> was repeating every hour. I couldn't find documentation on it, though.
> 
> I'll appreciate some (short!)explanation about it.
> 
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