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Re: What does 'apt' in /etc/cron.daily do?



On 2013-10-07, Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
>> 
>> Maybe he thought that given the apt script is run before the logrotate
>> script in cron.daily (if indeed they're handled in alphabetical order?
>> (apparently, yes, they're run in 'lexical sort order' order according to
>> the run-parts man page)), if the apt script hung for any reason, the
>> logrotate script would never get past the bottleneck, thus "explaining"
   ****************
   should have 'run-parts'

Anyhow, it's a vain _hypothesis_

 a proposal intended to explain certain facts or
 observations


>> his problem.
>
> Remember what Benny Hill said:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6jaKkE0RsI

but not an assumption

  a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a
  conclusion can be drawn;

  a hypothesis that is taken for granted
  


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