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- From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
- Subject: Re: Cron for Linux?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.191705.22459@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca>
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- Organization: York University, CS Dept. Toronto
- References: <1992Dec23.192311.20136@r-node.gts.org> <Bzwp3x.98t@citrus.SAC.CA.US>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 19:17:05 GMT
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- In article <Bzwp3x.98t@citrus.SAC.CA.US> qumqats@citrus.SAC.CA.US ( Joel M. Baldwin ) writes:
- >marc@r-node.gts.org (Marc Fournier - Admin) writes:
- >: In article <1992Dec21.050300.17459@netcom.com> zmbenhal@netcom.com (Zeyd M. Ben-Halim) writes:
- >: >In article <BzL4M1.Cp8@cs.dal.ca> dinn@ug.cs.dal.ca (Michael 'Moose' Dinn) writes:
- >: >>
- >: >>Does a cron-type scheduler exit for Linux? the SLS distribution doesn't
- >: >>return anything on a find / -name \*cron\* -print.
- >: >
- >: >tsx-11.mit.edu:pub/linux/sources/usr.bin/vixie-cron.tar.Z
- >: >
- >: It is also included in the new .99 release in /usr/bin.
- >: But...it doesn't get started as part of the installation stuff..you
- >: have to add it to /etc/rc
- >
- >?????? /usr/bin????? whats it doing in there? shouldn't it be in /etc?
- >
- That was where *I* thought it should be too...but that was where
- I was told to look, and that was where I found it.
-
- Also, those of you that tried 'find / -name cron -print' to find
- it...that wouldn't work, since it is named crond instead of just cron.
-
- Marc
-