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- From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Cron for Linux?
- Date: 27 Dec 1992 16:16:15 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) writes:
-
- > 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
-
- That is why a lot of times people should just RTFM.
-
- I never do finds with absolute names unless I know that is EXACTLY what
- I am looking for. Use wildcards, they were included for a reason.
-
- find / -name \*cron\* -print
-
- Works just fine here.
-
- (Sidenote: This ranting is mainly because half the problems people have
- here is just general unix questions that could be better answered somewhere
- else. (Gee, comp.unix.questions comes to mind :-). Those man pages and README
- files were put there for a reason people, try using them. )
-
- James
-