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Re: using cron



On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:20:11 +0200, in linux.debian.user you wrote:

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>You don't put the script itself in the directory.  Actually, you don't touch 
>those directories.  (How would cron know when to run it???) 

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>Hal

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What the? Of course you can put scripts in that directory. That's why it's
called cron.daily!!!

Duh...

scripts in cron.daily are run once a day (time determined by /etc/crontab, which
defaults to:

25 6    * * *   root    test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report
/etc/cron.daily




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