How are routine tasks run , if not from cron?

["Stan Brown" <stanb@awod.com>]

	How does the Debian install process run routine taks, if not from cron?
	I asked to have innd run routinely on install, and indeed it does seem
	to be runing, but there is no crontab entry for root.

	Puzzling.

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