Re: Anacron/Cron

["Scott K. Ellis" <storm@gate.net>]

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On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:

>      Now that anacron is taking over the daily, weekly and monthly
> cron jobs, can I safely remove cron, or is it required for other
> system functions? 

I wouldn't particuarly recomend removing cron.  Most of the time it is
sitting blocked and gets paged out anyway.  smail uses cron to run its
mail que.  And it is useful for running tasks every x/minutes or whatever.

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